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appropriative en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English appropriate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English appropriative From appropriate + -ive.

Meanings

Taking or setting apart for oneself; appropriating; constituting appropriation.
- It seeks to not homogenize or be appropriative of women of color, but even given this commitment, it does “turn women of color into something that can be used to further her own ideas.” White feminists end up painting broad strokes about women of color and oppressed groups, because they fail to fully engage and interrogate their work. 2015, Nancy Arden McHugh, The Limits of Knowledge: Generating Pragmatist Feminist Cases, →ISBN:
- [...] pointing to the tourism industry's appropriation and marketisation of Indigenous cultural material. Decontextualised and simplistically displayed on a tourist's shirt, this particular reference to Indigenous Australian cultures complements the 'exoticised' and culturally appropriative experience of the outback 'served' to the tourists. It also encapsulates the entitlement of the white tourists exemplified by careless cultural appropriation and lack of knowledge about the land's histories. 2016, Katarina Gregersdotter, Johan Höglund, Nicklas Hållén, Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism, →ISBN, page 81:
- Unburdened by defensiveness, Ravel is able to figure the exotic in ways that are genuinely open to the energies of the other as well as appropriative of them. Those emergies find their culminating expression in the “General Dance” celebrating the union of Daphnis and Chloe. By organizing its dithyrambic whirl with an irregular meter, 5/4, the dance becomes an orgy of “false steps” utterly alien to the European tradition of superenergetic finales. 1996, Lawrence Kramer, Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge, →ISBN, page 222: