Except the land o lakes girl is a white girl in a costume. Its not an accurate depiction of a native american. And I'm no expert on butter but I'm pretty sure that came along with the colonization from Europe. But beyond that, yes you are learning a lot about native Americans from the packaging of your butter.
Yeah, but we also were also just using them as mascots.
I don't have any particular opinion on this instance but it seems to me that people mistake prevalence of caricatures with respecting a culture. Rather than actually respecting a culture.
On the other side I think people mistake removing caricatures as solving the problem when you really just need to educate people. Someone mistaking a caricature as respecting the culture isn’t doing it out of hate they are doing it out of ignorance.
i dont think anyone i read is actually upset one way or the other by this on here.
I think a lot of times the solution is probably to do both. Because I agree, I think a lot of it (if not the vast majority) is based in ignorance. However, that doesn’t mean we keep the caricature up
As I get older, it's a little sad to see things associated with my childhood disappear. As a kid, I remember a friend that showed how cutting out her knees the same size as the butter she was holding and moving it up, gave us the closest thing we could get to a dirty picture. Kids nowadays don't need imagination they just jump on the internet and find things I could never imagine!
