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How to handle cultural appropriation of your Hindu traditions

My white girlfriend wants to learn about Hinduism but when she talks about chakras and yoga philosophy it makes me cringe and I don't know why I feel so protective.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Sacred inheritance becomes complicated when filtered through dominant culture's selective spiritual consumerism.

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