I understand that culture is as alive as language and therefore there is nothing we can do to prevent anyone from adopting it and distorting it (through the eyes of those who created it). Anyone who knows a version will hardly know that it is the misrepresentation of another and consequently it is not the same thing. The original culture, so to speak, will be preserved in the minds and practices of the living individuals who know it and over time will naturally change among them. The altered culture becomes something new and unique and follows the same rules of preservation as the original and the collaborations as well. In the end, culture will only exist as long as individuals practice it and pass it on, if someone sees something and decides to take it for themselves he is risking passing himself off as a thief who is how I see those who do not give due credit to anything or anyone when they are due.

Recently, during a gastronomy workshop, we had the example of pastéis de Belém. The so-called pastéis de Belém are only those made in Belém by people from Belém, but they are still pastéis de Belém when made in other regions of the world, even if they are not.