I have just arrived in India.

I visited India as a tourist.

I love the country and I fell in love with their weddings and decided to throw my own fake Indian wedding with my girlfriend.

A lien we dressed up with Indian clothes.

We got Indian henna, We've got Indian friends, We've got a boat, We've got a horse and we got big married with Indian music.

It was a beautiful, beautiful day for everyone.

I shared this wedding with people on the Internet and many people loved it.

But to my surprise, I got in trouble.

In the Western world, you stole their culture.

You are so disrespectful.

This is cultural appropriation.

I was shocked and angry because cultural appropriation is defined in the dictionary word for word as taking things from a culture that is not yours without showing that you understand or respect the culture.

This Indian wedding is the exact opposite of that.

What has happened to us?

We are separating people into different cultures.

This is yours and this is mine.

You don't touch my culture, food or heritage.

and I don't touch yours in the U.

S.

You see it happen all the time.

And also in Israel and Palestine, Israelis say hummus is ours.

Palestinians say no hummus is ours.

And the funny thing is, hummus is neither Israeli nor Palestinian.

Apparently, it has originated in ancient Egypt.

Thousands of years ago, tens of cultures shared this delicious, amazing Palestinian Egyptian, Lebanese Israeli Syrian Middle Eastern meal.

And that's exactly my point.

Culture.

The things we are trying to protect has been created by many people over many, many years.

Take Zanzibar, for example.

The food is Indian, the language is Arabic and the clothes are African.

It is an amazing mix off all cultures in one place.

Don't get me wrong cultural appropriation Israel.

And it happens all the time.

People steal other cultures and claim them as if it's theirs.

It happens here, here and here, but 99% of the time, visiting a place dressing up with their clothes.

Having fun together is not cultural appropriation.

It's cultural appreciation.

See you next week.

One of the best parts of Indian culture is an Indian wedding.

So today I decided toe fake Mary, my actual girlfriend in an Indian before you go.

One last thing.

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