Something a lot of ignorant people try to discredit and write off as bullshit but it is when a person from any background takes something from someone else's culture and tries to make it their own. Literally a person trying to disassociate a culture from it's people.
Cultural Appropriation is not just Kim Kardashian wearing cornrows but becomes that when the media calls them "Kardashian Braids". More examples are if a girl were to wear an native american headress and call it a "feather hat," or A person wearing a bindi and calling it "the new forehead dot," must I go on???????
by JWizzleOnThaBlock October 12, 2016
Get the cultural appropriation mug.Cultural Appropriation is the very real theft of the elements of a minority culture, stolen by the majority, and joined into pop culture, without acknowledging the original creators of that culture. Elements that the original culture are usually made fun of for embracing, but are made trendy by the majority while abusing its significance. Anyone can appropriate culture.
"Do you see Steven with that tribal tattoo? "
"Total cultural appropriation he isn't even native American and he doesn't know what they stand for. He said they just looked cool"
"Total cultural appropriation he isn't even native American and he doesn't know what they stand for. He said they just looked cool"
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I went to the rodeo last night and saw 4 oriental kids eating tacos with baseball caps on sideways.... they might be culturally confused!!!
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Fuck this shit i know shanikwa wasn't born with blonde hair, she is appropriating my culture. Thats text book cultural appropriation.
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Proponents of this term demand that customs, practices or traditions that originated in a non-white culture be kept out of it.
Increasingly, the term is used to purge non-white culture altogether.
Proponents of this term demand that customs, practices or traditions that originated in a non-white culture be kept out of it.
Increasingly, the term is used to purge non-white culture altogether.
"You can't wear a colombian costume on Halloween, that's cultural appropriation!"
"I am colombian."
"That doesn't matter; it might trigger the other white racists."
"I am colombian."
"That doesn't matter; it might trigger the other white racists."
by Andy Eier January 22, 2016
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