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odinsblog · 2 months
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Tracy Chapman has herself said that she didn’t mind the remake because she is the sole writer of the song, and as such, she appreciates the royalties.
Luke’s version is getting a lot of airtime, but so is Tracy’s original version.
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And Luke’s sincere and obvious appreciation of Chapman’s song is just icing on the cake:
When Luke Combs set out to cover Tracy Chapman's 1988 hit “Fast Car”, he did it out of complete admiration for the song
Although not every lyric makes sense being covered by a male vocalist, he decided not to deviate from the original lyrics out of respect for its original songwriter.
“You want to just be mega respectful of the original song,” Combs tells Kelleigh Bannen on Today's Country Radio. “That's why in that song ... it’s, ‘Work in the market as a checkout girl.’ I didn’t change that in my version — I really wanted to just do the original version of the song.”
Combs really wanted to bring the song as it was intended to be in presenting it to a new generation of fans who may have only been vaguely familiar with the original.
“It’s weird because you’re doing a cover of it, and you say, ‘I don’t want to make it my own, because I really just want to shine a light on the original version and bring that.’”
“Because I think there’s so many people that maybe know that song, or it would be familiar to them, but they really don’t know anything about it,” he explains. “They’ve never really listened to it.”
“When I recorded this, literally the engineer in there asked me who I wrote that song with,” Combs adds.
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fireheartwraith · 10 months
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What is Festa Junina?
You may have heard the brazilian cc's talking about throwing a festa junina in the server, but what is it exactly?
Festa Junina translates to June's Party, and its origins go back to pagan midsummer and harvest celebrations. Time went on and it mixed with catholic beliefs, especially those centered around Saint Anthony, Saint Peter, and Saint John the Baptist (which is why it is also known as São João).
The tradition was brought to Brazil with colonization. It's no longer a summer fest since it's winter, but you can still see the influence (maybe the bonfires are part of it).
Nowadays, Festa Junina is known for the traditional square dancing and the food — seriously, the food is amazing (look up pamonha, cural, canjica, pé-de-moleque, bolo de fubá, cuzcuz nordestino... damn I'm hungry)! Most of it is made with corn or peanuts. Mulled wine is also a must! People dress in a "country" fashion, with straw hats, puffy dresses, and drawn freckles and mustaches. Everything is VERY colorful.
School kids will put on shows (known as quadrilhas), which usually include a "wedding" comedy sketch. In my high school, the twist was that the best man was in love with the groom. It was very dramatic. I loved it.
Here are some pictures and traditional songs! I wish we could get a mod with the foods to the server or something, but just the skins and decorations will already be so much fun!
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whereserpentswalk · 3 months
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Wendigos and Golems are two very different creatures, but pop culture gave them the same treatment of taking them away from their cultural origins and stripping them of their interesting themes so that they could be big monsters for heroes to fight. Probably because both of the original stories are from a context of oppression the storytellers faced from European Christans.
While I don't have the cultural background to tell you how to use the Wendigo, I am from the culture that invented the Golem. And I will tell you that I don't personally take offense to people using Golems in fantasy, but I'd much rather people actually understand the context that they came from, and what happened in the original story, rather than just making it a robot with magic. At the very least make it divine magic instead of arcane.
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violottie · 29 days
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"Here's why the "Dune" movies are being accused of erasing the original story's Islamic and Arabic influences" from AJ Plus, 28/Feb/2024:
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Día los Muertos is NOT “Mexican Halloween” and is a deeply spiritual holiday for Mexicans and Mexican Americans! Remember to practice cultural appreciation and not appropriation, and respect closed practices!
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official-oshun · 8 months
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a lot of people both in real life and in fandom spaces don’t seem to understand what transracial adoption is, let alone normal adoption, and how it absolutely is a family formation. It’s not a vague “found family” without labels, but instead it is a family akin to blood.
and please, if you would:
stop calling canon adoption in media “found family” 
stop assuming adoption can’t be done by ppl bio related to the adoptee
stop assuming family needs to look alike, in real life and in fiction
stop using the “they are adopted” to explain why your ships is “normal”
stop assuming people who look “different” that are participating in culture festivals aren’t related to the cultural. ex: that black person you see participating in the krakowiak could be mixed or transracially adopted by a polish couple and connected to polish traditions. it’s not cultural appropriation if it is your culture.
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The Japanese brand ROCHIE (Romanian for „dress”) honouring the traditional Romanian blouse (ie)
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Ricky Gervais, "Armageddon."
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shotofstress · 5 months
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Hey, please reblog and add the name of a palestinian artist, musician, novelist, poet, etc. If u want to include a pic that awesome, but not necessary if u don't have it at hand. U know a cool book on a palestinian contemporary art? Give the name! U know the name of a palestinian craft or a tradition that is share between Palestine and neighbours? Put it here.
This will not only help me to educate myself better, but also to tell others and keep palestinians in the tags not only with news and terrible traumatic pics and testimonies, but also with the culture that the colonialist pretend to erase and appropriate. Palestine can't be in our minds only the resistance and the horrors, and the dying. They are people, cultures, life, the daily things too.
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shaftking · 8 months
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Y’all…. Someone finding out a way to prepare food that is new to them that already exists in another culture is not gentrification. Someone calling an existing food from another culture by a localized more easy to pronounce name is not gentrification. Seeing some lady discover how to make homemade tostadas by frying corn tortillas and calling it a “flat crunchy taco” is working from her existing knowledge of food and should be met with excitement that she appreciates an existing food and had the idea to make it independently, not accusations of cultural appropriation and rude racist comments as if her blameless ignorance about fucking tostadas is a crime committed because her light skin makes her an evil thief.
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turbo-overkill · 1 year
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Been thinking abt Wendigoon for a bit and unfortunately the only post criticizing him that I could find had reblogs/replies turned off (I can imagine ppl were getting annoying in the notes), so I'm making my own post.
Please unfollow if you continue to support Wendigoon in any way while knowing where his name stems from and the controversy around using it in such a way. It's literally based off Native American folklore, a creature whose name is not supposed to be said out loud, and this guy just. took it and turned it into a gimmick. he's made literal plushies out of it. I've seen some people under his YouTube videos criticizing him, and to my knowledge, he's never acknowledged any of it.
he's also made some really weird "having a big platform doesn't mean I have to use it for good" statements and I remember a few really... off or straight up transphobic stuff he said on Tiktok, but that's just the cherry on top.
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anpaaaaa · 3 months
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“wendigoon’s name is cultural appropriation” he’s quite literally native american 😭
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atsthealgae · 4 months
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Is this cultural appropriation?
Calling out to the Jews here, is it cultural appropriation if I practice Judaism, despite being raised in a Christian household? Judaism is as much cultural as it is religious and I want to know if I’m being offensive by celebrating Jewish holidays when I’m not Jewish by blood, but as Jewish by religion?
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vindictame · 10 months
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Julia Yaroshenko - Native headdress (thejulia Instagram - 3 June 2023)
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sbrown82 · 2 months
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Might be controversial, but this why I don’t support transracial adoption, at least, when it comes to white adopting parents because many of them don’t seem to think. They just pick out a non-white kid and don’t do the work to make sure that child grows up supported racially and knowing their culture. Some do, but it seems like a lot don’t. Like why adopt a child you know nothing about or how to even do the basic things for? And when it comes to a little black girl and her hair, we had to have a whole crown act, don’t have that child going to school looking crazy and have her hating herself and being picked on because you didn’t think about her hair BEFORE adopting her. Makes me think what other things he failed to learn about regarding black culture and racism, which he will need to know when raising her to make sure she’s prepared. We all know we’ve had those “black talks” with our parents. She won’t get that. I hope he isn’t one of those “I see no race” people because little girl is going to be in for a very rude awakening at some point in her life when she realizes “I’m just me at home, but I’m black out in the world.” I think it’s absolutely neglectful for a white parent to not make an adopted child aware of what she will walk into concerning the world. Plus, every time I hear about these types of adoptions, I can’t help thinking about that lesbian couple who adopted all those black kids, took them around for photographs to absolve white guilt, then ended up killing them. The one child hasn’t been found to this day. Idk it always sus to me.
I don't disagree with transracial adoption at all, because first of all EVERY child deserves love and to be cared for. But it is true, if you adopt a child of another race, it's your responsibility to engage them in their culture so they can feel comfortable, appreciated and walk through life with a bit more ease. I think Angelina Jolie does a great job at that. She's always seemed very invested in her children's lives, their unique cultures, and respects their differences. She even takes lessons in their native languages and lets them visit each of their countries so they know and remember who they are and where they came from and I think that is beautiful.
Here's her in Cambodia (where her eldest son Maddox is originally from) teaching journalists about the local food culture and how the people there have survived off of the diet:
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Every day I am tested by the “witches” on this app who are not only misinformed and misguided, but are LOUD about it as if they’re 100% correct. How do you practice paganism or witchcraft with no understanding of the Indigenous people’s beliefs from which all of this comes from? Newsflash: regardless of the type of witchcraft you’re into, IT HAS INDIGENOUS ROOTS. How do you not even have a basic knowledge of the rich Black and Indigenous history of paganism/heathenism/spirituality?
Indigenous people from all over, from Africa to Ireland to the Americas to the Asias, have not only carefully cultivated and maintained these practices, but have carried and passed them down for thousands of years, and you’re going to sit here and ignore the history and only talk about the 19 white witches who died in Salem? All at the fault of one Black witch, of course (or so the story goes). You’re not going to mention the ongoing brutality, genocide, and erasure that has continued to affect Black and Indigenous people to this day? Like, paganism and heathenism literally mean pre-Christian beliefs. That means pre-colonization beliefs. THAT MEANS INDIGENOUS BELIEFS.
I beg y’all to pick up quite literally *any* book by a Black or Indigenous author and to critically think about the world around you, or to follow a few spiritual blogs ran by Black, Asian, Latine, and Indigenous people, especially before you try and engage in something that’s been around long before you ever were. Stop acting like you know everything about the practice; you simply don’t. None of us do! We’re all learning all the time, every single day, and it’s extremely elitist and ignorant to assume you’re done learning at any point. What you know is what you’ve read on the internet or in books, when this knowledge has traditionally always been passed down from generation to generation through oral knowledge varying by culture. You can certainly access this information now, but you have to seek it out, which very little of you do. It renders the entire spiritual community artificial and one dimensional, hinders you on your spiritual journey and it completely erases the roots of these beliefs— and that’s not fucking cool.
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