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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on October 29, 2018, 03:49:39 pm

Title: Augustana College pleads with students to 'pledge' against cultural appropriation
Post by: rangerrebew on October 29, 2018, 03:49:39 pm

Augustana College pleads with students to 'pledge' against cultural appropriation
Kenneth Nelson

on Oct 26, 2018 at 4:28 PM EDT


Augustana College in Illinois hosted an event at which it asked students to "sign a pledge promising not to appropriate any culture."

The college's Office of Student Inclusion and Diversity defines cultural appropriation as “the adoption of elements of a culture that is not their own.”

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11451 (https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11451)