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Respect And Appreciation By Meera Solanki Estrada

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Respect and appreciation go hand-in-hand. Meera Solanki Estrada, culture expert and author of the article “The Fine Line Between Cultural Appropriation and Appreciation” on Huffington Post, discusses stratagems in which the population can appreciate diversity of cultures, rather than blatantly stating to readers that cultural appropriation is unethical. Many news outlets that cover this controversial topic often times focus on the pessimistic attributes of appropriation and the issues that become of annexing elements of a minority’s culture instead of offering solutions of political correctness for cultural appropriation. Therefore, Estrada wrote this article to clarify what one must do in order to appreciate a culture, giving a positive response
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