“In the case of something like yoga, it is
not possible to return economic control and ownership to the originating
culture,” one professor says.
Adrian Humphreys:
Pundits from around the globe weighed in on the death of a yoga class
for students at the University of Ottawa over questions of cultural
sensitivity, often awkwardly squeezing in “bending over backwards” or
“tying themselves in knots” puns in lampooning out-of-control political
correctness.
Student yoga joins a long list of art, fashion, music, sports and
activities chastised as insensitive or racist acts by a Western or white
majority cultural appropriation from minority communities.
Cultural appropriation, as a term, was once largely confined to
academic critiques of colonialism, but has become an increasingly
popular watchword in social media and among activists.
But is yoga one complaint too far?
It leaves campus administrators, public relations experts and,
perhaps, almost everyone else pondering when appreciation became
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