Python • Re: Advice on Building a Spirit Animal Finder Tool with Python for Website

What’s the best way to structure the logic for mapping user inputs to a specific spirit animal?

Code:

resp = input("Are you First Nations?")if resp[0].upper() != "Y":    print("You don't get a Spirit Animal.")

Cultural appropriation of Native spirituality is deeply hurtful. Please don't take this job.

References / further reading:

• Words and phrases you may want to think twice about using - by Priscilla Ki Sun Hwang · CBC News · Posted: Nov 29, 2021
• A Short Guide to Inclusive Language - by Queens University (Kingston, ON) Professional Studies Staff, 2023
• How Racism Against Native People Is Normalized, From Mascots to Costumes - Teen Vogue, op-ed by Heather Davidson, 2018.

More than one culture around the globe have this concept of spirit animal in one way or another. So not one of them can't claim their culture is being appropriated with regards to this concept.

Here's an example:
If a site tells me my spirit animal is a lion, Native Americans can't cry foul that someone's idea of a having a lion spirit animal or having the soul of lion. Native Americans didn't know about lions until relatively recently compared to how long their spirit animal custom first came to be.

Black people* can't be offended by white people using corn rolls because of cultural appropriation either. The Vikings are know to also have braided their hair in the same fashion centuries ago, before they had any exposure to African culture and vice-versa.

So unless this thing contains blatant copies of a culture's or another's ideas, there is nothing wrong with OP's work or that site.


* I have a black friend who refuses to accept it's OK to be called an African American.

Statistics: Posted by memjr — Thu Sep 19, 2024 8:29 pm

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