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How adoption complicates cultural spiritual practice

I want to honor my Yoruba heritage but I was adopted by a white family and I don't know how to approach these traditions without feeling like I'm playing dress-up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cross-cultural adoption can create complex questions about authentic access to ancestral spiritual traditions.

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