The difference is that usually, the controversy over museums taking stuff from other cultures comes from a period of extraordinary looting in the process of 19th century AD imperialism, which we’ve pretty much all agreed was a dick move and at a time when Euros no longer normalized treating each other like that. So it’s more a question of double standards and restitution.
See also: Babylonian paving destroyed by US tanks,
… not sure I’d remark on that one positively, or even neutrally.
The difference is that usually, the controversy over museums taking stuff from other cultures comes from a period of extraordinary looting in the process of 19th century AD imperialism, which we’ve pretty much all agreed was a dick move and at a time when Euros no longer normalized treating each other like that. So it’s more a question of double standards and restitution.
… not sure I’d remark on that one positively, or even neutrally.