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[–] 37 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

The "wild west" is a mostly invented culture anyway. It's like high fantasy middle Europe, tiki bars, pirates of the carribian, ninjas... Can you really claim appropriation when the underlying culture is essentially a fiction?

In real terms, what we think of as "the wild west" was made up by mostly-Italian movie directors.

Not to even mention the screenshot is an English-language film that is unambiguously parody.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Italien directors made a new wild west "culture" based partly on Japanese made Samurai movies which were partly based on the old wild west "culture" that was created by Hollywood.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I don't think anyone was arguing it's cultural appropriation (or it's negative). As an American I'm just glad that our nation's history and culture has matured to the point people across the globe want to enjoy it with us.

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