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Using the same logic as this article, it would be wrong for a white kid to wear the jersey of a Latino baseball player

Disagree. Kids can tell the difference between something that represents the history and culture of a ppl group and a baseball jersey.

Dress-up is being something you are not. Diff: creature, period, planet, culture. Opportunity to think about something other than yourself

Thinking about what it would be like to be somebody else is empathy.

And empathy is great. Living in a world where you know your culture is X, but everybody you go to school with thinks it's Y, is Not Great.

Practice empathy! Let's not just see thing from the POV of the white person who gets to practice the wonderful life skill of empathy...

But also from the POV of, you know, the person whose rich, complex culture gets flattened into a costume? How might they feel?

Then rural Americans shouldn’t dress like the cast of ‘Friends’ because Manhattan culture can’t be flattened into a costume either.