@girlpots: Cultural exchange is essential to ceramics. Cultural entitlement isn’t. Learning from a tradition is not the same as inheriting it and one teacher’s permission does not give you authority over the cultural inheritance of millions. This is about an observable pattern, not one individual. #pottery #ceramics #colonialism
Fellow Potter here. Also Asian. Can’t even get started on this topic. It is infuriating. I blame McKenzie and Leach and Cardew.
2026-09-20 22:39:36
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renovatingmyyard :
They do this with Native American art too. If you go to Arizona, all white male artist. All of their stuff look the same like Native art.
2026-09-20 22:30:55
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ruthkartel :
you also just summed up the yoga industry
2026-10-03 18:43:25
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user275699868736 :
non-issue
2026-09-21 13:32:20
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Gisellyy🌹 :
With restaurants too!!
2026-09-20 18:27:49
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nukam77 :
They did with yoga
2026-09-21 00:12:05
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DIYorDIE :
You all just never stop
2026-09-21 00:16:22
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Reid•likes•to•read :
This is literally a trope in media and fiction as well. White man comes in and learns the way of the natives, eventually mastering it better than themselves and/ or becoming a leader. You see it in Avatar, for example.
2026-09-20 21:21:11
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Robin :
Same with chefs too
2026-09-20 21:18:53
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your mom :
I know a white lady who made money selling boba drinks and dared to sell courses on how to make a business out of selling boba
2026-09-21 00:46:06
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T.L.C :
Johnathan Adler!
2026-09-20 19:51:46
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user2459278169680 :
I know nothing about pottery but keep your foot on their necks!!
2026-09-20 18:42:42
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ArcadianMind :
So like.. ceramics has existed in nearly all countries because it’s how humans made tools and foodware
2026-09-22 07:35:44
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shaniqua :
they do this with.... just about everything
2026-09-21 04:19:48
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doink :
Do women yoga teachers next
2026-09-23 05:04:52
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jack barbour :
It’s not just potters. It’s a Male ego in any hobby that makes not fun for everyone.
2026-09-21 01:57:21
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cara :
i have heard it justified in my studio by saying that japanese ceramics was built on the forced abduction of korean potters during the imjin war which is true but like why would you try to repeat history by stealing it again
2026-09-20 21:47:39
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LukeGannon :
This is why all my ceramics are stolen from Wetherspoons
2026-09-24 17:38:20
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Secretgarden724623 :
Same for yoga too.. so many white men “guru” that dictate “how to be a better yoga teacher”
2026-09-21 01:58:46
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Huw! :
You’ve got them mad but keep saying it 😌
2026-09-20 18:47:52
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tonimoon333 :
That white tea man who went to Asia (China?) and now has his own tea brand…
2026-09-20 21:34:19
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😃Jae Carter 🥝🤍🍋🍋 :
same with food.. the British guy that went to MEXICO to teach them how to make bread😂😂😂.
2026-09-21 02:49:02
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user7603138994251 :
Absolutely white women too, we’ve been seeing this with south Asian fashion being rebranded by northern Europeans
2026-09-27 08:47:45
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Eric Carlson177 :
Ceramics drama!!!!
2026-09-21 03:10:35
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