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By Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Magazine, Sept. 25, 2015 IT’S A TRUTH only selectively acknowledged that all cultures are mongrel. One of the first Indian words to be brought into English was the Hindi ‘‘loot’’ — ‘‘plunder.’’ Some of the Ku Klux Klan’s 19th-century costumes were, of all things, inspired in part by theContinue reading “Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong?”