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by Katherine Timpf November 2, 2015
(Yes, the school was allegedly actually demanding that students ask for approval to wear their costumes.)
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426448/mariachi-halloween-costume-school-ontario
Apparently, it’s “cultural appropriation” — whether it’s your own culture or not.
A student a St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Ontario, Canada was forbidden from dressing up as a mariachi for Halloween on the grounds that it could be offensive to Hispanic students — even though he’s Hispanic himself.
Ninth-grader Joshua Sewerynek told the Media Research Center’s MRCTV that, per the school’s instructions, he had tweeted asking permission for he and his friends to wear the costume.
(Yes, the school was allegedly actually demanding that students ask for approval to wear their costumes.)
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426448/mariachi-halloween-costume-school-ontario
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