Does anybody believe in cultural appropriation?

No, cultural appropriation is a very (US) American-centric way of thinking by people who have mostly never even experienced another culture. If one travels you’ll realize that every culture adopts pieces of other cultures and that globally, this is quite natural.

Cultural appropriation isn’t a thing and if it were, almost everyone on the planet is guilty of it in some way. The mixing of cultures is actually a wonderful thing, especially when it lends to better understanding and empathy.

(AI rendering of me that I used as my profile picture during Day of the Dead in Mexico. This year I celebrated Dia de Muertos in Mexico City. Absolutely no one made me feel excluded just because I’m not Mexican).

Hello, I have a question about astral projection. I started to get interested in this a little while after my mum passed in april. I thought I may be able to see her and speak with her if I managed to achieve astral projection. Since this interest, every time i sleep on my back I go into sleep paralysis. However, I cant progress into astral projection because it is very scary for me as I feel like I'm suffocating when this happens. I panic and force myself to wake up. This only ever happened about once a year before this. It sometimes lasts a long time. This has happened about 3 times per week since my mum died, as mentioned on a previous post. I no longer try to go into it anymore(due to the suffocating feeling), but it still happens. I read that sleep paralysis is the pathway to astral projection. Why has this started to happen so frequently since simply taking an interest in it? Is this connected to the afterlife? I am concerned about it as I now cannot seem to stop this happening. Could it be my mum trying to communicate? Im asking due to more knowledge around this in this group.

When I first moved to Mexico I didn’t fully understand this. One evening I was in downtown Mérida and a few people were selling guayaberas and a shop owner invited me inside of his shop to take a look. For those that don’t know, a guayabera is a linen shirt that usually comes in white or other light colors that is worn in several countries in Latin America, but especially in places with a tropical climate.

I asked my Mexican friend if it would be cultural appropriation if I wore such a garment. She just looked at me with a puzzled look not really understanding what I was asking.