Suzanne Harrington: Is cultural appropriation love or stealing? 

Suzanne Harrington: Is cultural appropriation love or stealing? 

Adele performing at Glastonbury Festival in 2016.

What’s the difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation? Adele, apparently. 

The same Adele, trounced online for wearing a Jamaican flag bikini top, and Bantu knots (a hairstyle also worn by Rhianna, Halle Berry, Uzo Aduba’s Crazy Eyes character in Orange Is The New Black, Mel B in her Scary Spice days – and Bjork, but nobody seemed to mind because she was wearing them years before online outrage became so tiresomely fashionable).

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