Coco

Yehudit Mam
10 min readDec 11, 2017

People love this movie. It’s not their fault.

At the end credits of the newest Disney juggernaut of sentiment, which focuses on the Mexican tradition of Day of the Dead, there is an ample list of cultural advisors, most of them highly credentialed. It feels like a preemptive move to stave off accusations of cultural appropriation (a thorny, politically correct concept that is seldom ascribed smartly). Well, whatever advice these mavens imparted to the…

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Yehudit Mam

Author of Serves You Right, a novel in NFT. Cocreator of dada.nyc. A Jewish Aztec Princess with a passion for film, food, and human foibles. yehuditmam.net