Find a copy of the Times on Monday and read the long article by journo who went to Santo Domingo and Quito interviewing some of the influences on him. MC had just left the country having visited where he used to live, and speaking in English to schoolkids. He doesn't forget his roots, and his...
commonly yes, but there is no rule to say so. Indeed this article suggests the meaning is altered by doing so: https://www.timesofisrael.com/whats-in-a-hyphen-why-writing-anti-semitism-with-a-dash-distorts-its-meaning/