And when you stand to make a handsome profit from it as well.
I truly do not understand how people like this manage to feel threatened by other cultural practices. Their culture is not in danger, nor is it going anywhere. Calm wayyyyyyy down.
I can’t express how happy I would be to walk out of my house one day to find a Day of the Dead celebration in full swing.
Fear really is the mind killer.
As hard as it is to imagine, there’s a type of person who really is guided by magical thinking. For them, there really are demons trying to lead people astray under innocent-seeming guises, and Actual Bad Magic Works can result.
This is batshit crazy from my point of view, but it 100% accounts for the observed behavior here.
Ditto. Mexican or Brakiri.
As an atheist, I agree.
There’s no easy answer to this question but it basically becomes cultural appropriation when you disenfranchise a people from their culture.
It’s not easy to culturally appropriate Mexican* traditions because we like to share, take for example the film Coco, Pixar made a lot of money by making a movie based on a Mexican tradition, it could so easily become cultural appropriation. Even if you argue that actual Mexicans and people of Mexican descent were involved, the money did not go to Mexico, the profits went, and continue to go to an American company.
But the movie was well made, the tradition mostly well represented and many characters were based on real life Mexican stars (Though I really disliked that the bad guy was sort of modeled on Pedro Infante) which made the film feel like it was honoring the tradition, Mexicans mostly felt that the value of having their tradition respectfully displayed in a good story was worth the economic benefit for Pixar. (OK, not many people thought about it that hard but some of us did), Some cultures might not feel the same way
Basically if you want to know if it’s cultural appropriation follow the money, when a people’s culture makes money for somebody else without any benefit to the people who live and breathe those traditions, you’re probably looking at cultural appropriation.
The native peoples of the Americas are a good example of cultures that are too easy to disrespect, mainly because they are usually so disenfranchised already that it is hard for them to participate as equals.
* I am referring to Mexicans in Mexico as that is my experience.
Looks like Ms. Pearl Clutcher needs to watch more Disney Channel:
BUT WAIT!!!
The Dead are actually summoned back!!! Ms. Pearl Clutcher was right!!!
No wait, standard ghosts, no zombies/resurrected corpses:
(sorry, girlchild is of the appropriate age, and loves spooky things, so this is on at my house)
You have to look at the reason for the offense, being offended by misrepresentation is not the same as being offended by appropriation.
If I say most Mexicans don’t really care if Americans wear sombreros on this forum, I need to specify that I’m talking about Mexican nationals, in this way Americans have tied one hand behind their backs when trying to deal with other cultures respectfully, by having no easy way to distinguish culture from nationality.
A German wearing a sombrero is less problematic than an American wearing a sombrero. That’s because we know that the caricature the German is emulating is likely of American origin. But we Mexicans lean into it and sell ridiculously large sombreros at every tourist destination in Mexico.
It’s complicated is what I’m saying.
If Americans believe that a taco is something that gets served on a hard shell with ground beef seasoned with taco spice, whatever that shit is, I can be personally offended, but this does not erase or replace the original taco (Though Americans tried, taco bell was a flop here in Mexico while Mcdonald’s makes bank) I am not deprived of tacos.
I make the distinction between Mexican nationals and Americans of Mexican descent because our relationship to our culture can be different at times, I would certainly feel differently about how popular culture handles the signifiers of my heritage if it was commercially profitable but socially ostracizing.
Is it ironic that, as a Christian, she literally worships a Necromancer?
We really screwed things up in this country (USA) when we gave up the Melting Pot theory for Multiculturalism. Goddamn Hippies!
I remember hearing people cheer wildly in the audience when El Santo appeared.
I have found the secret code that mexican are using to crete zombies… so it’s true
`#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
int main ()
{
pid_t child_pid;
int child_status;
child_pid = fork ();
if (child_pid > 0) {
// el proceso principal se suspenderá durante 30 segundos y saldrá, sin una llamada para esperar ()
fprintf(stderr,“el proceso principal - %d\n”, getpid());
sleep(30);
exit(0);
}
else if (child_pid == 0) {
// el proceso hijo saldrá inmediatamente
fprintf(stderr,“el proceso hijo - %d\n”, getpid());
exit(0);
}
else if (child_pid == -1) {
// error de horquilla
perror(“la llamada fork () falló”);
exit (-1);
}
else {
// esto no debería suceder
fprintf(stderr, "valor de retorno desconocido d% de la llamada fork () ", child_pid);
exit (-2);
}
return 0;
}`
Blame Canada!
The Canadian government has often been described as the instigator of multicultural ideology because of its public emphasis on the social importance of immigration.[11][12]The Canadian Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism is often referred to as the origins of modern political awareness of multiculturalism.[13] In the Western English-speaking countries, multiculturalism as an official national policy started in Canada in 1971, followed by Australia in 1973 where it is maintained today.[14][15][16][17] It was quickly adopted as official policy by most member-states of the European Union.
Or - you know- accept that some people value their Irish, German, French, Puerto Rican, Brazilian or lgbt identity’s.
It’s the same reason kids aren’t allowed to play Dungeons & Dragons or read Harry Potter. Because some small number of them might actually try to cast spells or summon demons. duh!
I wonder if they realize that what they say makes them look like a superstitious idiot to us? I know many Christians who do not believe that witchcraft is real. But every once in a while I run into a few who take fantasy as reality. And believe they are a warrior in a literal battle between light and dark. Sorry fans, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Grimm are not a documentaries.
Disagree, they are indeed. Just not on the side they think they are.
@RexDart: Not outside my door, just down the street a bit
Día de Muertos Ohio and Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) / Teatro Público de Cleveland (TPC) proudly present the 15th Annual Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) Festival in Cleveland’s Detroit Shoreway neighborhood …
…The Procession of “Skulls & Skeletons” has returned once again this year, and requires mandatory registration due to increased popularity.
It’s a wonderful thing that so many people want to help celebrate.
Don’t encourage them. Not only can’t they distinguish reality from fantasy, they also don’t follow sarcasm.
