It's not "cool" or "edgy" and, no, it doesn't fucking matter if the "culture resonates with your spirit" or whatever. Look up cultural appropriation. Day of the Dead is an important tradition in many Latino cultures. It is used to pray for and remember the dead and white folks - because it's almost always non-Latino white folks who do this - who treat it as a "Mexican Halloween" are desecrating this sacred holiday.
(And do I even need to go into colonization and how it relates to cultural appropriation?)
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