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The Mexican state of Oaxaca is threatening legal action against Adidas, accusing the footwear company of cultural ...
Mexican-American clothing designer Willy Chavarria has apologized for an Adidas sandal that he created after being accused by ...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that Adidas was already in talks with authorities in Oaxaca to provide “compensation ...
In the globalised and hyper-connected world, we live in, culture travels at the speed of Wi-Fi. What once took centuries to ...
Piers Morgan thinks Beyonce copied Marilyn Monroe's swag in her Levis advertisement. Read that ridiculousness again ...
She shook her head and explained: ‘Not exactly. Cultural appropriation is when members of one culture — usually a dominant ...
Cultural appropriation does not exist. "Cultural appropriation" as described by Susan Scafidi, a law professor at Fordham University, is “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural ...
We see cultural appropriation in the media all the time. It’s Selena Gomez wearing a bindi in her “Come and Get It” music video (and in several photo ops that followed).
The progressive concept of “cultural appropriation” has become an increasingly mainstream idea. Do a Google search on, say, “yoga is cultural appropriation,” and you’ll see for yourself. What does ...
Something is indeed wrong here, but it’s not “cultural appropriation,” a term that carries more meaning as a signal of media outrage than as a descriptor for variegated forms of cultural ...
A more recent example of clearly unethical cultural appropriation and exploitation of Indigenous cultures for profit came to the fore in 2021 when the government of Mexico accused clothing ...