Question 7

Appropriation can refer to the process whereby members of relatively privileged groups raid the culture of marginalized groups, abstracting cultural practices or artifacts from their historically specific contexts. In this video abstracting the cultural practice of asking someone to come over and fix something in his or her house is an example of appropriation. This video contains reappropriation when the people in the video take that cultural practice and change it to something that our culture would find weird or different. They do this by dressing inappropriately and using different language from the norm. Our society would consider this video different from the cultural norms we are used to.