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Oregon Student Leader: Eating Burritos on Cinco de Mayo is "Cultural Appropriation"
Pundit Press ^ | 5/6/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 05/06/2015 7:15:22 AM PDT by rightistight

Perla Alvarez, the Associated Students of the University of Oregon’s (ASUO) “Multicultural Advocate,” believes that eating a burrito on Cinco de Mayo, as well as other things such as eating guacamole, is “cultural appropriation” of Mexican culture.

She begins her letter to Oregon’s student newspaper by writing, “It’s “Cinco de Mayo!” Yay for some of you who want to party! However, it sucks for those of us who do not celebrate this day and have to witness you appropriating our culture.”

Despite the fact that most colleges in the United States push for more diversity and understanding of cultures, Ms. Alvarez believes that people celebrating Mexican culture and food is a bad thing.

“Cultural appropriation,” she explains, “is when a group of people use aspects of other cultures; it consists a [sic] dominant group taking from a historically oppressed or a minority group of people.”

...She continues, “By wearing sombreros, mustaches and sarapes you are not only appropriating our culture, but you are portraying an image that does not represent us. Before you dress up, eat burritos and take tequila shots, take time to reflect on what you are doing and how it can affect those around you. Please educate yourself.”

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To: Noumenon

I don’t care either.

I like burritos and will eat theM, Cinco or not.


21 posted on 05/06/2015 7:35:05 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: RetiredArmy

Our office always has all sorts of crap for Cinco - I just avoid them all.


22 posted on 05/06/2015 7:36:02 AM PDT by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Jonty30

Cinco or not, yeah, but what about with or without Mayo?


23 posted on 05/06/2015 7:37:34 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: mykroar

Yeah, my last job before retirement was a liberal slime ball law firm in Seattle. They celebrated all the commie holidays and such. I was sooooooooooo glad when we retired and I moved back to Sweet Home Alabama!!! My wife was from Seattle and she was glad when we came down here also. She had come to hate Seattle and what it has become. Lived there since 1954 and was sick of the direction the city had taken. She says it was not like that when she was a younger girl growing up there. No homo parades in those days.


24 posted on 05/06/2015 7:38:50 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (It is about THE CROSS. It has always been and always will be about the CROSS!!!)
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To: rightistight

Cinco de Mayo is a fake Holiday invented by a US beer company, to sell more beer.

Unless you are into obscure 1800s Mexican military victories.

Which I’m sure this lib-tard is NOT


25 posted on 05/06/2015 7:45:33 AM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: ErnBatavia

LOL !!!


26 posted on 05/06/2015 7:46:10 AM PDT by clamper1797 (I'm a Tea Party Conservative ... in my opinion that makes me "Politically Correct")
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To: clamper1797

Should the students also sell grass and carry leaf blowers?

What is needed are safe spaces from diversity.


27 posted on 05/06/2015 7:49:54 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: rightistight

This American holiday commemorates the racist Mexican miliary’s defeat of French dreamers at Puebla on May 4, 1862 to break up French families, all because they did not look like them. It was the militaristic far right Mexican government failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform that lead to the genocide.


28 posted on 05/06/2015 7:51:07 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: School of Rational Thought

Girth on parade.


29 posted on 05/06/2015 7:52:04 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: rightistight
Listening to Perla whine or having a party?

So hard to decide.

30 posted on 05/06/2015 7:52:21 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: rightistight

HE’S MICROAGGRESSING ME!


31 posted on 05/06/2015 7:54:23 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: rightistight
Perla's brain scan results....


32 posted on 05/06/2015 7:54:41 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: RetiredArmy

Welcome back home!


33 posted on 05/06/2015 7:55:06 AM PDT by Himyar (Sessions: the only real man in D.C.)
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To: rightistight

The only mescan food I eat is at home and my white wife cooks it.

Am I okay Miss Liberal Mescan??


34 posted on 05/06/2015 7:56:46 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: rightistight
Oh. Well, I ate tacos, re-fried beans, rice, pico de gallo, and several types of salsa that could remove the chrome from the bumper of a '53 Buick Roadmaster. So I'm good. I didn't have a burrito or guacamole.

Oh, by-the-by, these weren't Americanized tacos either, they were honest-to-goodness real authentic Mexican-style. Corn tortilla, meat, seasonings, pico-de-gallo. El Taco Tote on Central in Albuquirky.

35 posted on 05/06/2015 7:58:18 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: TADSLOS

Tagline change


36 posted on 05/06/2015 7:58:36 AM PDT by clamper1797 (Ted Cruz for President ... all others are cheap imitations)
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To: rightistight

so strange - the folks who run the local Mexican restaurant didn’t seem to mind my wife and I eating tacos at their place yesterday. guess they didn’t get the message.


37 posted on 05/06/2015 7:59:55 AM PDT by utax
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To: rightistight
“Cultural appropriation,” she explains, “is when a group of people use aspects of other cultures

Like speaking Spanish in Mexico?

38 posted on 05/06/2015 8:00:53 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: rightistight

Dear Perla

No pizza for you.

Ever.

You are stuck with dry tortillas and masticated beans.

Sit down and shut up now...


39 posted on 05/06/2015 8:01:45 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: DanielRedfoot
Yep, just another fake holiday invented by retailers to drive sales up, one in a long line.

Do you suppose if we called it Cinco de Mayonnaise, it would set off any Mexican Offendotrons? Heh.

40 posted on 05/06/2015 8:02:26 AM PDT by W. (Many Disqus sites, Cheezburger.com and [The Internet] Archive.org all censor conservative comment.)
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