Nevertheless, it is not the purview of the western world to hold hostage cultural artifacts of other nations. That is a reductionist attitude, left over from the era of patriarchal colonial control of most of these countries. Their cultural artifacts should be returned to them, and only retained in western museums where their respective national governments outright request the retention of those artifacts for protective purposes. Anything else is patriarchal colonialism all over again. It’s racist and it’s wrong.
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Nevertheless, it is not the purview of the western world to hold hostage cultural artifacts of other nations. That is a reductionist attitude, left over from the era of patriarchal colonial control of most of these countries. Their cultural artifacts should be returned to them, and only retained in western museums where their respective national governments outright request the retention of those artifacts for protective purposes. Anything else is patriarchal colonialism all over again. It’s racist and it’s wrong.