Great question, I went and asked a Jewish friend about this and she said that Yiddish isn’t really widely spoken any more. However most people who do speak it as a first language would be extremely flattered that someone who isn’t Jewish is trying to learn it.
However, she also said that comparing AAVE to Yiddish is absurd because of how different the circumstances are in that people aren’t actively taking Yiddish phrases as their own without caring about the culture they come from.
As for the rest of your post, it absolutely possibly, I and many others do so every day because that language and culture isn’t mine nor theirs to use, take etc.
Also cultural exchange isn’t what happens when people take something, but when it’s freely given. Which black people keep saying it isn’t but people do not care about them nor their needs, culture or other such things, so it remains a problem.
However, she also said that comparing AAVE to Yiddish is absurd because of how different the circumstances are in that people aren’t actively taking Yiddish phrases as their own without caring about the culture they come from.
Well, we use quite a lot of Jiddisch words here in Germany, but I can guarantee you almost nobody even knows those are Jiddisch words, despite what their ancestors have done to the Jews.
because that language and culture isn’t mine nor theirs to use, take etc.
Okay, to me that just sounds like bullshit. You can’t dictate how other people are allowed to behave. You also can’t avoid it. If people are positively impressed by words or actions, they’ll copy them, no matter whether you allowed them to or not. There’s no copyright for culture (thank goodness).
Maybe I’m just entirely insensitive to the topic and making an ass out of myself, but to me (an ignorant) this seems like totally made up nonsense.
Well, you said it and I’m tired of explaining what actual black people who we both should be listening to have said, what they’ve been through etc.
I’m tired of running around doing all this work asking people, paying attention whilst you and people like you just pontificate in the comments and possibly continue taking things whilst people suffer.
So I’m done with this conversation.
Hope you come around eventually, but I’m not holding my breath.
Great question, I went and asked a Jewish friend about this and she said that Yiddish isn’t really widely spoken any more. However most people who do speak it as a first language would be extremely flattered that someone who isn’t Jewish is trying to learn it.
However, she also said that comparing AAVE to Yiddish is absurd because of how different the circumstances are in that people aren’t actively taking Yiddish phrases as their own without caring about the culture they come from.
As for the rest of your post, it absolutely possibly, I and many others do so every day because that language and culture isn’t mine nor theirs to use, take etc.
Also cultural exchange isn’t what happens when people take something, but when it’s freely given. Which black people keep saying it isn’t but people do not care about them nor their needs, culture or other such things, so it remains a problem.
Well, we use quite a lot of Jiddisch words here in Germany, but I can guarantee you almost nobody even knows those are Jiddisch words, despite what their ancestors have done to the Jews.
Okay, to me that just sounds like bullshit. You can’t dictate how other people are allowed to behave. You also can’t avoid it. If people are positively impressed by words or actions, they’ll copy them, no matter whether you allowed them to or not. There’s no copyright for culture (thank goodness).
Maybe I’m just entirely insensitive to the topic and making an ass out of myself, but to me (an ignorant) this seems like totally made up nonsense.
Well, you said it and I’m tired of explaining what actual black people who we both should be listening to have said, what they’ve been through etc.
I’m tired of running around doing all this work asking people, paying attention whilst you and people like you just pontificate in the comments and possibly continue taking things whilst people suffer.
So I’m done with this conversation.
Hope you come around eventually, but I’m not holding my breath.