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Anyone hoping that wokeness was quite dead may need to wake up. While it’s taken a beating in some places, the fashion industry continues to be a battleground. Between the dumb controversy over the American Eagle ad and this latest ‘outrage’ over a Mexican designer ‘culturally appropriating’ a Mexican sandal for Adidas, fashion is still woke.
Mexican authorities are accusing sportswear company Adidas of plagiarizing artisans in southern Mexico, alleging that a new sandal design is strikingly similar to the traditional indigenous footwear known as huaraches.
According to Mexican authorities, Adidas’ design contains elements that are part of the cultural heritage of the Zapotec Indigenous communities in Oaxaca, particularly in the town of Villa Hidalgo de Yalálag.
How does one “plagiarize” a ‘traditional; design? If we’re going to allow every town or tribe that came up with some design or look to maintain control over it for a thousand years, we’d still be in the dark ages.
Human progress depends on the spread of ideas. That’s why we can wear silk without depending on Chinese silkworms and have indoor plumbing without paying royalties to the Roman Empire.
The Adidas designer, Willy Chavarria, who already apologized, is Mexican. So has Adidas and that just emboldens the parasites.
In a public letter to Adidas leadership, Oaxaca state Gov. Salomón Jara Cruz criticized the company’s design, saying that “creative inspiration” is not a valid justification for using cultural expressions that “provide identity to communities.”
If your community gets its identity from a shoe, rethink the community.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday that Adidas was already in talks with authorities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca to provide “compensation for the people who were plagiarized,” and that her government was preparing legal reforms to prevent the copying of Mexican handicrafts.
That will teach anyone to show any interest in Mexican handicrafts ever again.
Yeah, one can hardly get anywhere without cultural appropriation. Someone thinks of something new, others copy it, and it spreads.
It used to be that imitation was the sincerest form of compliment, but now it’s somehow a crime.
”’………a new sandal design is strikingly similar to the traditional indigenous footwear known as huaraches.”
Whoever wrote that should learn what research is. “Similar” is not “appropriation” and “Huaraches” is the Spanish word for “sandals.”
The Zapotecs in Oaxaca are treated like SHIT by the authorities and Mestizos in general. When a Mestizo is walking along the sidewalk and a Zapotec is walking toward one, the Zapotec is expected to get in the street and walk around the Mestizo. They hate Zapotec as much as they hate Guatemalans.
Thank you for pointing that out.
Automobile, military rocket, airplane, hot air balloon, atomic bomb (that’s one all the worlds countries will rush to turn over theirs to America), trains, submarines, rice, tea, wheat, barley, beer.
This could go on all day.
I have crocheted scores of berets over thevyears. Am I culturally appropriating France? When Red Heart yarn brings out “Aran Classics” crochet and knitting patterns, are they culturally appropriating Ireland? Is anyone wearing plaid-I have four plaid shirts-culturally appropriating Scotland? Is wearing a poncho also culturally appropriafing Mexico? These people have lower I.Q.s and less sense of the ridiculous, than a parking meter
Any EUROPEAN who REAĹLY opposed cutural appropriatiin would do all his figuring with Roman numerals.. Don’t want to culturally appropriate the Hindus and the Arabs
Stop social evolution. Halt. UN puts a hard stop to social evolution, EU right behind them. Nikola Tesla appropriated AC current from what culture? We don’t know, let’s get to the bottom of it. Tesla said he saw AC in a vision. Tesla appropriated AC from a Heavenly vision. Well, Heaven wants the patent.
Is this blackmail for Adidas to sell their shoes in Mexico? Barf –
When I ran cross country in high school in the 1960’s Adidas was the dream shoe. After Converse on the basketball court, Adidas was the dream show from a kid too poor to get a pair. The coach handed me a worn pair I kept together with duct tape and I thought I was flying until half way through the race the shoes came apart and I finished the race barefooted!
Now it’s Brooks. Ah Brooks for the senior citizen. Now who did they get the idea of a shoe from to begin with.
Reparations for chapalas in India, huaraches in Mexico, frankly Mexico and India should be suing each other for who came up with the sandal idea first? Rome is no longer in existence so sorry, they’re out of the massive sandal global lawsuit. Weeping cultures, look up, dry your eyes, Social Evolution cannot be stopped!
Huaraches used to made using the treads of discarded automobile tires. Now I suppose they will only use new tires from an EV. An old Border Patrolman told me they would track “undocumented immigrants” by the tire tracks.
All claims of cultural appropriation should be litigated with the script of the “culture” making the claim. Otherwise, the claim is guilty of the same accusation. Peruvian natives would have to use knots. Egyptians would use papyrus an ink. The Clean Air Act would have to be waived for those using smoke signals.
Smoke signals were actually very efficient. It wasn’t just the Indians who used them.
How about Africans who send messages from village to village with drums?
Wake me up when the fashion police complain about africans and S Americans using vulcanized rubber (elastic0, sewing machines (electricity), and machine-woven fabrics…
Adidas? … I thought we cancelled Adidas.
For being the the brand of Pootler.
4 out of 5 Russian Slavs agree …
Adidas are the best thing to wear to a DUI accident.
Just sayin’
Levis and Nike are not worth it anymore Kaepernick can Go Pond Sand as far as i’m concerned
Whoopi Goldberg ?