In 2017, an article written by Hal Niedvieski, the chief editor of the “Write Magazine,” caused quite a lot of controversy, with reason. The writer claimed that we should encourage people to write based on culture that is not your own or, in other words, to perform cultural appropriation. In his article, he claims that cultural appropriation is limiting the creativity of writers and that there should even be a “appropriation prize” given to the writer who wrote the best book about people that are not of his culture (Nathoo). Not only that, but he claimed that cultural appropriation didn’t…