Boletín 96 - Coco, la apropiación cultural y el Día de los Muertos/Halloween.

When there’s no one left in the living world who remembers you, you disappear from this world. We call it the Final Death.

Edition 96 of Boletín is all about Día de los Muertos with three texts and a set b discussion style task to complete.

Source text 1 is about Coco.

Source text 2 is about el Día de los Muertos.

Source text 3 is about halloween’s increasing popularity in Mexico.

cultural appropriation is the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture.

Some have criticised Disney claiming cultural apropriation with Coco which they alledgeldy wanted to originally title Día de Muertos. This latter title, it is claimed, Disney attempted to copyright eventually pulling the plug after a public backlash. This might be worth a conversation in class before discussion card 1 question 3: ¿Es Coco un ejemplo de apropiación cultural?.

It seems el Día de Muertos has certainly been globalised. Below is a great video of un poco loco sung in multiple different languages.

Grammar to look out for in edition 96

• Uses of por and para

• Adjectival agreement

• Reflexive/pronominal verbs

• Imperfect tense

• Direct object pronouns

• Indirect object pronouns

• Irregular conditional tense

• Superlatives

• Relative pronouns

• Present perfect

That’s all from me this week!

Download edition 96 here.

Ollie