When activist Seren Sensei Aishitemasu said Thursday in a clip for The Grapevine, a web series that explores African-American issues, that Bruno Mars appropriated black culture, even if it's not dark, the Internet broke out. Mars adopted the African-American musical styles and took advantage of them. The hubbub began during the weekend when Seren said 'Bruno Mars 100% is a cultural appropriator. He is not black at all, and he plays his racial ambiguity to cross genres. "Cultural appropriation" is defined as "the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not yours, especially without showing that it respects that culture," according to the Cambridge Dictionary. saying, "What Bruno Mars is doing is taking a pre-existing job and he's just coming word for word, recreating it, extrapolating it," Aishitemasu explains, "He does not create it, he does not He's a karaoke singer, he's a wedding singer, he's the person you hire to make Michael Jackson and Prince, yet Bruno Mars has an album of his own. 'Grammy and Prince never won a Grammy year album.' "Grammy winner Grammy on the horizon is half Filipino, a Puerto Rican quarter and a Jewish quarterback Ashkenazi comments sparked a fierce Twitter debate between those who agreed with Aishitemasu and those who defend Mars.
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