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[–] [email protected] 107 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (47 children)

Literally no Latin American is going to be bothered Or annoyed in any way whatsoever if you don typical dresses of their culture.

We love our culture and love it even more when we influence gringos to dress as our ancestors did.

The joy is palpable. It makes you part of the family. And that's plenty

Besides, no one here knows what the deal is with getting offended on behalf of someone else. If anyone has a problem, they speak up their minds.

Slurs? Motherfückêr, that's half our language.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (41 children)

This is one thing ive never understood about "cultural appropriation." If someone is partaking in your nations/cultures traditions, apperal, food, etc. Why is that a bad thing? Wouldnt people want their traditions known and shared and experienced by many?

Idk im just a white guy who loves dia de los muertos

[–] Danquebec -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

As a Quebecois, I like that Canadians like poutine. I don't like that they pretend they have invented it. I also like that they like maple syrup and the traditions surrounding it (cabane à sucre). I don't like that they appropriate it as a thing of their own (we produce 90% of global maple syrup).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As a Quebecois

You may not like it, but as a Quebecois you unfortunately remain part of Canada and thus are part of the set of Canadians and the creations and practices of Quebec are Canadian as a consequence.

To change that, you'll need to double down on that Free Quebec stuff and cut yourselves away from your English neighbors. Though I don't think that's even won an opinion poll in the last twenty years, and I don't think it's ever been closer than the failed resolution in 1995.

[–] Danquebec 1 points 6 days ago

So it's fine for a culture to pretend to have invented something or take something as their own as long as that something is from a culture that happens to be in the same country?

To me, that's cultural appropriation, no matter whether it happens within the same country or not.

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