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Cultural appropriation is here to stay
On a recent trip to Poland, I was collected at the airport by a Polish taxi driver, a white guy who wouldn’t look amiss in a commune for ageing hippies. Inside his car was an Africa-shaped pendant hanging from his rear-view mirror. I was for some reason …