Whatever original meaning the trinket may or may not have had, it's liable to be drowned out if enough white people come to think of them as "Mexican luck trinkets."


Good point, which reminds me that American food is rife with mislabeling, too. "Hamburgers" (not from Germany), "French Fries" (not from France, which makes the whole stupid "freedom fries" campaign even more stupid), and certainly most US pizza has little or nothing to do with actual Italian food.

So I wonder, with tongue only slightly in cheek, if erroneous cultural attributions like the above are better, worse, or the same as cultural appropriation.

And this doesn't even cover the multiple layers of weirdness involved in almost all "American flags" being manufactured in China. :)