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Adidas has apologised after Mexico accused it of cultural appropriation by releasing a sandal based on a style made by ...
She shook her head and explained: ‘Not exactly. Cultural appropriation is when members of one culture — usually a dominant ...
Adidas and designer Willy Chavarria have been accused of cultural appropriation for their latest collaborative shoe design.
Mexican authorities have accused Adidas of plagiarizing Mexican artisans with a new sandal design similar to Indigenous ...
Mexican-American clothing designer Willy Chavarria has apologized for an Adidas sandal that he created after being accused by ...
Piers Morgan thinks Beyonce copied Marilyn Monroe's swag in her Levis advertisement. Read that ridiculousness again ...
Project Humanities' cultural appropriation symposium aims to address these discrepancies about the issue. Director of Project Humanities and ASU professor Neal Lester said there's a difference between ...
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 ...
In the globalised and hyper-connected world, we live in, culture travels at the speed of Wi-Fi. What once took centuries to ...
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 ...
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).
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 ...