Ancestry and Cultural Appropriation

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We received a community question from Chelsea a while back, and it's so important that we wanted to include it in our relatively new podcast too. Nail our colours to the mast, so to speak. She said: "I'm really keenly aware of how much cultural appropriation happens in neopagan and new age practices. I'm also a person who wants to connect authentically with my own ancestry as a way of working to heal some of the trauma and sickness of generations of being colonial oppressors on this continent, and I'm seeking a spiritual practice that isn't yet another appropriation on my part. What do you think of people of mixed ancestry? In my case, it's mixed English, Scottish and Irish, but as I've looked back into my family history where I can find the info, it is more English than either Scottish or Irish. So what do you think of them pursuing an Irish pagan path?"

(This originally appeared as a video on Lora's YouTube channel, all Pagan focused content on YouTube is now available directly on the Irish Pagan School channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheIrishPaganSchool)

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