Comment: If a Canadian person were to paint like the French impressionists, would that person be committing cultural appropriation? Would people scream it is unacceptable?

If a French person were to paint like the Canadian Group of Seven, would that person be committing cultural appropriation? Would that be unacceptable?

If eastern foreigners or indigenous people in Canada adopt western language and styles of writing and western ways, would that be cultural appropriation? Should that be unnaceptable?

When is adopting some of ways of another culture acceptable and when is it unaccptable?

What do the Metis say?

And isn't immitation the finest form of flattery?