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James and Scott produced a piece of scholarship and relevance. They write: “Future installments will offer more details on what is known about the cultural diffusion that took place in the ancient world, between ancient Near Eastern civilizations and the proto-Greeks.” Much of their article is about diffusion and transmission from one culture to another. Yet in schools this century the self-anointed woke gurus walk around with the lofty term cultural appropriation on their lips. They think it’s bad to draw ideas from Indigenous culture, and vice versa — which is why decolonialism is de rigeur. Cultural appropriation is a good thing. Colonialism in the form of new ideas flowing to less advanced cultures is a good thing.

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