Thanks for your thoughts, sciencegeek. I don't mean to offend, but I'd just like to point something out: Did you mean "fact that you are concerned about being exploitative"? It seems like that's what you meant. But the problem is that some people believe that they are not exploiting others, although they are. What is the difference? How does a person know whether they are being exploitative or not? If I was a white American who wanted to become a blues singer, was clearly inspired by early blues performers but didn't credit my sources of inspiration for the songs i sang, would I be being exploitative? Or would I just be a clueless white American person who believes they are not racist because "Hey, my friends/distant relatives are Black and my great-grandmother was Lakota! And my family said it was alright because they didn't say who they got the songs from, so why should I? And the blues isn't African-American!" or something like that?