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Posted on 08/10/2025 10:05:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
MEXICO CITY (AP) — 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.
The controversy has fueled accusations of cultural appropriation by the footwear brand, with authorities saying this is not the first time traditional Mexican handicrafts have been copied. Citing these concerns, local authorities have asked Adidas to withdraw the shoe model.
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.
The design at the center of the controversy is the “Oaxaca Slip-On,” a sandal created by U.S. designer Willy Chavarría for Adidas Originals. The sandals feature thin leather straps braided in a style that is unmistakably similar to the traditional Mexican huaraches. Instead of flat leather soles, the Adidas shoes tout a more chunky, sports shoe sole.
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. Handicrafts are a crucial economic lifeline in Mexico, providing jobs for around half a million people across the country. The industry accounts for around 10% of the gross domestic product of states like Oaxaca, Jalisco, Michoacán and Guerrero.
For Viridiana Jarquín García, a huaraches creator and vendor in Oaxaca’s capital, the Adidas shoes were a “cheap copy” of the kind of work that Mexican artists take time and care to craft.
“The artistry is being lost. We’re losing our tradition,” she said in...
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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.
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!
Liberals have no purpose in life but to take offense at something.
“Cultural Appropriation”!
Another concept that needs a stake driven through its evil heart!
Nobody is falling for the “cultural appropriation” schtick anymore. Mexico needs to shut up about everything until they get their s*** together.
Interesting. Do they have a patent on the design? Oh well. Soo sad, too bad.
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.
Patent pending? No? What's the issue?
Isn’t nuclear weapons part of the American culture?
We should ask the Russians and Chinese to stop the “Cultural Appropriation” of American.
This is idiocy.
“ 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!!
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.
I thought Cultural appropriation was just another term for looting during riots.
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."
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.
Mexican word of the day: Extortion
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