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When does borrowing become 'cultural appropriation'?

Writer Afua Hirch and author Tiffany Jenkins discuss cultural appropriation

Kate Moss's daughter Lila Grace has come under fire after launching her first fashion campaign, The Braid Bar, which showed the 14-year-old with her hair done up in colourful braids. Social media comments accused the company of "cultural appropriation".

Afua Hirsch, a writer, lawyer and broadcaster of Ghanaian and English heritage and author of Keeping Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins, discuss whether everyone is entitled to experience different cultures or whether dominant cultures have always undermined the originating culture.

(Image: A white man dressed in a kimono. Credit: Getty Images.)

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