It seems whimsical and twee and I hate that all of these white men could go to the Middle East or to countries in Africa, take from the cultures and steal the light and bring it back to the West and then somehow reinvent what was already there through the filter of the white imagination so that it is now Othered and distanced and beige-ified, so that their people could understand it all from some vantage of safety. Why do they take, why can’t they give or just get out of the way?
