Updating Our Language - Day 3
"Spirit animal”
Example: *little girl does something*
Someone says: “She’s my spirit animal”
Using this phrase as a non-Native, for every day things, completely delegitimizes the use of the phrase and the spiritual meaning behind it for actual Indigenous people and appropriates their sacred culture.
Throughout July we will be making posts about updating our language.
We live in a society that has normalized using many words and phrases with racist origins.
Part of the anti-racist work involves acknowledging you have used them, beginning the process of eliminating them from your vocabulary, and gently correcting others when you hear them used.
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