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When cultural appropriation concerns disrupt spiritual family traditions

My teenage son says our family's Buddhist practice is cultural appropriation and refuses to meditate with us anymore, which breaks my heart because it's how we've always connected.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The painful reckoning with whether practices that feel spiritually nourishing might be ethically problematic.

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