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While many people appear uncomfortable when it comes to talking about cultural appropriation, yoga furnishes a textbook example; Westerners lift something from another tradition, brand it as “exotic,” proceed to dilute and twist it to satisfy their own desires, and then call it their own. While claiming to honor the centuries of tradition involved, what they practice is so far from the actual yoga practiced by actual Hindus that it’s really just another form of trendy fitness, covered in New Age trappings. For Indians, particularly Hindus, theres a definite divide when it comes to the yoga practiced by westerners and that practiced in their own communities. xojane/issues/yoga-religious-cultural-appropriation
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:35:18 +0000

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