what writers need to understand is that if you are going to use elements from cultures you aren’t a part of you need to fucking do your research. you need to spend hours reading and talking to people from the cultures and making sure that everything is as accurate and non offensive as possible. you can’t just skin a wikipedia article and expect everything to be okay or be shocked when people get upset. I know i would love to see certain pieces of my varying cultures in tv shows/movies/books/etc but it needs to be done the right way or else it just becomes another piece of racist, stereotype driven piece of shit.
also side note this isn’t directed at just white people literally any poc who decide to borrow pieces from another culture that they aren’t a part of are capable of being disrespectful. we all need to check ourselves and make sure we are being accurate.