Capitalism vindicates Bruno Mars’ cultural appropriation

Published March 12, 2018 5:01pm ET



Sorry, whiners, but society has judged Bruno Mars’ cultural appropriation as inherently positive.

To be clear, Mars does engage in cultural appropriation, if you go by Cambridge University’s definition of cultural appropriation as “the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect that culture.”

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