Dictionary

cultural appropriation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl əˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃən/ (US)

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The (often financially) exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture, often of those which have a history of stigmatisation.
   • Where, then, is the line that divides the simple pleasure of cultural fusion from cultural appropriation? One answer is that it becomes appropriation when one group's sense of "normal" inexplicably and unfairly dominates over another. 2015 April 2, Navneet Alang, “Must We Forfeit Our Ghee?”, in Hazlitt, retrieved 14 May 2023:
   • The party guests were subsequently investigated by the college for ‘ethnic stereotyping’ and placed on ‘social probation’, while the students' general assembly denounced the event as an act of ‘cultural appropriation’. 2016 November, Frances Wilson, “Whose Life Is It Anyway?”, in Literary Review:
   • What are the implications for our understanding of the ethics of cultural appropriation when the sound of a Pacific island women's choir becomes the hook of a club hit in Europe, without reward, recompense, or credit for that choir? 2000, David Hesmondhalgh, in Born/Hesmondhalgh, Western Music and Its Others, p. 280
   • Are yoga classes just bad cultural appropriation? 2015, The Guardian, headline, 23 November:
   • White Americans engaged in cultural appropriation when they performed dances involving blackface and mock Native American regalia.

Forms

Hypernyms

appropriation

Relateds

cultural appreciation · culturally appropriate

Translations (20)

oc apropiacion culturala (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · pt apropriação cultural (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · tr kültür yağmacılığı (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · ja 文化の盗用 (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · oc apropriacion culturala (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · ga leithghabháil chultúrtha (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · fi kulttuurinen omiminen (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · it appropriazione culturale (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · gl apropiación cultural (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · ka კულტურის მისაკუთრება (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · pl przywłaszczenie kulturowe (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · ar استيلاء ثقافي (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · es apropiación cultural (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · is menningarnám (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · ka კულტურის მითვისება (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · ja 文化盗用 (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · nl culturele toe-eigening (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · ca apropiació cultural (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · de kulturelle Aneignung (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture) · cmn 文化挪用 (exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture)