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When cultural pride becomes cultural performance

My daughter wants to get a tattoo of our traditional designs but she does not know the stories behind them and I worry she will become a costume of her own culture.

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A parent fears their child may reduce rich traditions to aesthetic choices disconnected from meaning.

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