Photo“There’s a difference between culture appreciation and culture appropriation,” one Twitter user wrote in defense of Mr. Trudeau. One Twitter user noted sardonically that the actor appeared to be teaching Mr. Trudeau about “playing the role” of a prime minister. It doesn’t hurt that Mr. Trudeau is a social media darling as adept at posing with panda bears as he is at parsing quantum computing. And in December 2016, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain was chastised for being photographed in a $1,250 pair of leather pants. As for Mr. Trudeau, he may have gotten the message of critics on this trip.

Source: New York Times February 23, 2018 21:45 UTC