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I came across this video that talked about the Native American concept of a person possessing Two-Spirits as opposed to the Western labels of gender identity and sexual orientation. What intrigued me about the video is that the contributors would draw parallels between homosexuality and being Two-Spirit, when I saw "two-spirit" being closer to bisexuality, or even a gender identity as opposed to a sexual orientation. Even the title of the "article"/video claims that Native Americans are "Un-Inventing" Homosexuality, when they are just clarifying that their culture has an identity known as "two-spirit." Even though this video is informative, I believe that it may be wrongly portraying information, especially in the claim that "homosexuality is an annoying thing someone invented," as opposed to a name to an identity that a certain demographic and culture uses.
I came across this video that talked about the Native American concept of a person possessing Two-Spirits as opposed to the Western labels of gender identity and sexual orientation. What intrigued me about the video is that the contributors would draw parallels between homosexuality and being Two-Spirit, when I saw "two-spirit" being closer to bisexuality, or even a gender identity as opposed to a sexual orientation. Even the title of the "article"/video claims that Native Americans are "Un-Inventing" Homosexuality, when they are just clarifying that their culture has an identity known as "two-spirit." Even though this video is informative, I believe that it may be wrongly portraying information, especially in the claim that "homosexuality is an annoying thing someone invented," as opposed to a name to an identity that a certain demographic and culture uses.
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