Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute, was quoted in a Brookhaven Courier article about cultural appropriation as it relates to children’s Halloween costumes.
There are better ways to teach children about the respect owed to all cultures, without parents overreacting to an unofficial faux pas stemmed from political correctness.
“I think that the argument has absolutely become politicized,” Susan Scafidi, a legal scholar, told USA Today. “But it doesn’t need to be. We can all learn to be polite and respectful without being political. And, in fact, I think most people want to be.” Scafidi is the author of “Who Owns Culture: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law.”
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“It would be terrible if we had to all remain in our own cultural lanes and only eat those exact same cuisines that our parents and grandparents and so forth ate, and never be able to travel the world by going from one restaurant to another or to experience other languages and movies and novels, and yes, modes of dress,” Scafidi said.