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When did injustice 3 come out4/5/2023 ![]() Instead, it is making fun of or otherwise mocking a certain culture/group of people that gets the most flack. However, it’s not those everyday instances of cultural appropriation-those instances where the cultures responsible for the numbers we use, the food we eat, and the clothes we wear are not acknowledged-that seem to get the most flack (either rightly or wrongly). When, without acknowledgement, you use Arabic numerals to help you with your math, make food from other cultures, and wear a form of clothing design that comes from a culture not your own, you are performing acts of cultural appropriation. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society.” Whether we realize it or not, cultural appropriation actually happens on an everyday basis. In particular, there was fury at the fact that instead of aiming for cultural appreciation, the party and all involved with it instead performed acts that were considered by many to be cultural appropriation.Ĭultural appropriation is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as, “The unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. Therefore, when news of this party and the social media posts from the party spread around the student body at Dickinson, there was an outpouring of fury. The political climate in the United States was already tense at the time, with then-candidate Donald Trump surging in the polls with inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants, and particularly Mexican immigrants. To say that there was anger about the existence of the party, the social media posts, and the people involved in the party would be an understatement. In addition to the Instagram photo, there was a Facebook photo of a male student wearing a white flannel undershirt and a bandana posing with a female student at Dickinson who was wearing a sombrero at the party. The photo had the caption “We swear we’ve got our green cards,” and the photo had the hashtags of #taco, #chihuahua and #tequila. At the party, a student posted on his Instagram account a photo of himself and a friend of his wearing sombreros. In short, there was an “Around the World” party at the college. When I was a senior at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania (which was in Fall 2015), a HUGE controversy erupted on campus.
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