So hard to decide.
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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I don’t care either.
I like burritos and will eat theM, Cinco or not.
Our office always has all sorts of crap for Cinco - I just avoid them all.
Cinco or not, yeah, but what about with or without Mayo?
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.
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
LOL !!!
Should the students also sell grass and carry leaf blowers?
What is needed are safe spaces from diversity.
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.
Girth on parade.
So hard to decide.
HE’S MICROAGGRESSING ME!
Welcome back home!
The only mescan food I eat is at home and my white wife cooks it.
Am I okay Miss Liberal Mescan??
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.
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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.
Like speaking Spanish in Mexico?
Dear Perla
No pizza for you.
Ever.
You are stuck with dry tortillas and masticated beans.
Sit down and shut up now...
Do you suppose if we called it Cinco de Mayonnaise, it would set off any Mexican Offendotrons? Heh.
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