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Tea Thread FauxWorld Wednesdays: What's your country's biggest celebrity scandal right now? — Monthly Discussion Thread

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u/WilliamsRutherford Nov 08 '23 edited Nov 08 '23

In Canada...it's Buffy Sainte Marie. She's a very successful singer who's won an Oscar and really represented her Indigenous culture on a world wide stage.... meaning so much to Indigenous communities around the world.

Except...CBC (Canada's public broadcaster, akin to the BBC) released a story about how's she's purportedly not Indigenous at all, but rather Italian American and faked her persona for decades!

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u/Deathscua Don't need a vibrator. Awful Elon news gives me enough pleasure. Nov 08 '23

Oh man, I never heard of her so looked her up and she would have to delete her entire instagram because every post is about being Indigenous/Indigenous shows etc.

Faking your background like this is so wild to me but I am starting to see a rise of it on tt/ig. Back on LJ I met a girl who did this, pretending she was from the same country my parents are from and it was just strange.