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Mexican authorities accuse Adidas of cultural appropriation in their sandal design
AP News ^ | Updated 12:28 PM CDT, August 9, 2025 | FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ

Posted on 08/10/2025 10:05:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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1 posted on 08/10/2025 10:05:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They dont have rights to it.

Can we demand the same thing for them creating western shoes and pants and shirts and cars, trucks, air conditioners, beer, any non-mexican food they eat...?

Lets just flip the script on them.


2 posted on 08/10/2025 10:07:24 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I demand that all Mexicans stop using computers, cars, planes and basically all technology as well as blue jeans and sneakers because that would be culturally appropriating American stuff!


3 posted on 08/10/2025 10:08:11 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Liberals have no purpose in life but to take offense at something.


4 posted on 08/10/2025 10:08:58 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Cultural appropriation" is a word used by libs to exfiltrate money from your wallet.

5 posted on 08/10/2025 10:09:04 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“Cultural Appropriation”!

Another concept that needs a stake driven through its evil heart!


6 posted on 08/10/2025 10:10:07 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nobody is falling for the “cultural appropriation” schtick anymore. Mexico needs to shut up about everything until they get their s*** together.


7 posted on 08/10/2025 10:11:29 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Interesting. Do they have a patent on the design? Oh well. Soo sad, too bad.


8 posted on 08/10/2025 10:12:11 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mexican authorities

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with authorities saying this is not the first time traditional Mexican handicrafts have been copied.

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Citing these concerns, local authorities have asked Adidas to withdraw the shoe model.


do these authorities have certificates?


9 posted on 08/10/2025 10:15:16 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
...cultural appropriation...

Patent pending? No? What's the issue?

10 posted on 08/10/2025 10:16:28 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: sjmjax

Isn’t nuclear weapons part of the American culture?

We should ask the Russians and Chinese to stop the “Cultural Appropriation” of American.


11 posted on 08/10/2025 10:17:45 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is idiocy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/adidas-designer-sorry-for-shoes-appropriated-from-mexico/ar-AA1KfCzs


12 posted on 08/10/2025 10:17:49 AM PDT by KansasGirl (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." Thomas Paine)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“ I demand that all Mexicans stop using computers, cars, planes and basically all technology as well as blue jeans and sneakers because that would be culturally appropriating American stuff!”
And tooth brushes!!


13 posted on 08/10/2025 10:18:29 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: bk1000

Absolutely. Wearing sandals in any style is as old as mankind. Mexican authorities need to clean up their own act, take back their citizens and provide factory jobs of which they have plenty.


14 posted on 08/10/2025 10:19:17 AM PDT by healy61
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I thought Cultural appropriation was just another term for looting during riots.


15 posted on 08/10/2025 10:22:22 AM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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Is that the official position of Mexican President SHEINBAUM?


16 posted on 08/10/2025 10:23:18 AM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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Is that the official position of Mexican President SHEINBAUM?

"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."

17 posted on 08/10/2025 10:29:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
I despise Mexicans. Their criminality, their over weaning sense of entitlement , especially for benefits and rights in the US to which they have no claim as they have and contribute nothing to our economy and in fact are a huge drain on it.

I see this human garbage in my hospitals ER every night sucking up all the benefits everyone of us on this web site has to pay in taxes.

18 posted on 08/10/2025 10:33:47 AM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mexican word of the day: Extortion


19 posted on 08/10/2025 10:34:16 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; SaveFerris; gundog; Kenny Bania; SunkenCiv
"We're going to knock off the Masai Bushmen."


20 posted on 08/10/2025 10:35:46 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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