Festivals are a worthwhile experience. While there may be plenty of festivals in your country, if you’re going abroad, you’ll find that festivals abroad can be an unforgettable experience. Whenever I travel, I try to arrange my schedule so that my visit falls around the same time as a festival or occasion in the area. …
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If you work in either the marketing or event planning industry, you might have caught word of the Coca-Cola Philippines incident last December. Based on news reports from the Philippines, Coca-Cola hosts an annual Coke Studio Christmas Concert every year featuring mostly local artists. The event was marketed as a free event, leading thousands of …
Coachella, Holi, Comic Con – just some examples of large-scale festivals, concerts, and events that have seen thousands of visitors. For people who attend these huge gatherings, it’s a day of fun and excitement that leave them wanting to come back next year to see if the experience can be even better than before. For …
As a dog owner who treats her Maltese like an actual child, when I see news articles about some messed up people throwing puppies into a river or trapping cats in sealed boxes, I’m furious at the show of animal cruelty. We are allegedly the smartest animal species in the world, but then we kill …
Dear Vegans and Dog Festival Apologists, Shut the Hell Up Read More »
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with both people who practice cultural appropriation and people who accuse other people of cultural appropriation. Women who wear hijabs or any traditional Muslim attire when they visit a Middle Eastern country with a strict dress code? Acceptable, not cultural appropriation. Making taco bowls? Acceptable – though arguably not …
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