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  Halloween is an exciting time for people of all ages to dress up as a superhero or their favourite movie or television character.   However, with all of the many costumes available in Halloween stores, people still choose to dress up as a certain ‘culture.’   This is referred to as cultural appropriation-to remove all original context or meaning, in order to make oneself seem “edgy”, or to allow or encourage monetary profit.   This may occur in a variety of forms, but around Halloween, it involves wearing costumes that focus on cultural stereotypes.   I recently viewed a video by Teen Vogue about how cultural appropriation during Halloween affects people from different ethnicities.   They were explaining that the costumes were disrespectful and were inaccurate depictions of traditional outfits people wear.   Hopefully, most people do not pick costumes with the intention of being racist.   But regardless, appropriative costumes encourage cul...

In November 2018, a midterm election in the United States took place.   The midterm elections are a way for US citizens to keep the President in check. It allows voters to change the makeup of Congress, though voting in more Democrats to prevent Republican law from being passed.   In this way, voters can prevent Trump from making any progress if enough people disagree with his end goals.  Based on the ‘Knock the Vote’ video, the majority of mid-term electorates are usually whiter, older and more conservative than voters from a presidential election.   The video featu red a variety of older men and women using profanity to anger youth.   They made comments disregarding climate change, school shootings and the ‘March for Lives’ movement.   Their defence for not caring about upcoming issues was that they will be dead, or that they haven’t been to school for 50 years.   The message of the video is reminding youth that rich, elderly Donald Trump suppor...

  In 2016, Colin Kaepernick took a stand against the racism occurring in America.  During the national anthem of an NFL game, he knelt on the sidelines to peacefully protest his views on racial injustice.  His actions left the country divided, some were in support of his protest, while others felt it was disrespectful towards the veterans that fought for their country.  Kaepernick was later fired from the San Francisco 49ers.  Recently, the company Nike responded to the uproar and hired Colin Kaepernick for their brand. He is now the face of Nike’s ad, where they promote believing in and sacrificing everything to accomplish your goals.   Nike’s decision to use Colin Kaepernick as the face of their latest campaign was met with both anger and celebration.   After the company released the ad, many angry sports fans retaliated by destroying Nike apparel.   Videos were posted on the internet of people burning their shoes and tearing...