1. It lets people express love for diverse cultures, but also harbor prejudice ideas against their people.

Appreciating another culture means understand the lives of their people. Taking credit for another culture's practices is not only cruel, but rather, ignorant.

2. It makes these practices 'cool' for white people but too 'ghetto' or 'ethnic' for people of color.

Why is it when a person of color participates in their cultural practice, they are mocked? Whereas mainstream media praises white people when they get involved in these practices? When harboring these cultural practices and calling them your own, you are giving out a false perception of that ethnic group.

3. Cultural appropriation lets white people become wealthier and gain higher status off oppressed people's labor and hard work.

Let us say that a middle-class white woman gets into Native American spirituality, and sees the chance to start a business based on what she’s learned. She has an interest, and she wants to make money off of it. That’s the dream, right?

But the problem is that in order to sell her products, she has to participate in a discriminatory system. This system includes federal government policies that make it hard for Native people to start their own businesses, as well as a professional culture in which white middle class women can fit more easily than poor Native women.

So while she profits, Native women become embedded in deep cycles of poverty.

Within all these horrible effects of cultural appropriation, one thing remains clear. This spreads lies about other cultures, further seperating ourselves from the world.