The idiotic conflation of culture with racism. Essentially the absurd belief that the cultural exchange that has served to enrich humanity throughout all of human history is wrong because racists exist.
SJW: OMG, look at that white girl with dreadlocks! That's cultural appropriation!
Sane individual: Eat a bag of dicks.
Sane individual: Eat a bag of dicks.
by Gubless September 10, 2016
Get the Cultural appropriationmug. SJW: "That white girl wears dreadlocks! She can't do that, that's cultural appropriation!"
Everyone else: "So you say she can't do something because of the color of her skin? Really?"
Everyone else: "So you say she can't do something because of the color of her skin? Really?"
by IamMeWasTaken November 23, 2018
Get the Cultural appropriationmug. A term used by racist bigots who are angry to discover that they don't have personal ownership of a generally available product, style, or service.
Box braids on white people are cultural appropriation.
by Thystle April 26, 2021
Get the Cultural appropriationmug. A way for people, normally white girls from LA, on twitter to take offense for another culture while people from the actual culture normally really don’t give a shit.
Person: My lNative American step-mother used to hang dream catchers on our walls, but she passed away. Is it still appropriate for me to keep it?
Ruby Richardson: Is she from the Ojibwe tribe? Have you studied the history of the Ojibwe people and the dream catcher? If not then it’s not meant for you and it’s cultural appropriation and I don’t care that it was a gift from your deceased stepmother.
Ruby Richardson: Is she from the Ojibwe tribe? Have you studied the history of the Ojibwe people and the dream catcher? If not then it’s not meant for you and it’s cultural appropriation and I don’t care that it was a gift from your deceased stepmother.
by The Baconspiracy June 10, 2020
Get the cultural appropriationmug. SJW: "Oh my god, that white person is making a CURRY?! That is cultural appropriation and so wrong!"
White Supremacist: "I agree with you, white people need to stick to their own culture and shun anything created by black or brown people"
White Supremacist: "I agree with you, white people need to stick to their own culture and shun anything created by black or brown people"
by Cicero1 August 6, 2020
Get the Cultural Appropriationmug. When a different culture adopts cultural traditions of another culture.
This's a very common process in diverse locations and open-minded people, in which multiple cultures accept and adopt others' traditions.
This's rarely a bad thing - examples of when "cultural appropriation" is when the Nazis adopted the Swastika (卍) from Indian religions and therefore gave it a bad name.
Barbaric philosophy of SJWs conclude that cultural appropriation is a grave sin. This SJW philosophy has very common traits with racial segregation, apartheid, racism, and likewise. Although SJWs believe that they're politically correct, this racist barbaric philosophy can easily be categorized under hate speech, discrimination, or racism, or in the support of thereof.
This's a very common process in diverse locations and open-minded people, in which multiple cultures accept and adopt others' traditions.
This's rarely a bad thing - examples of when "cultural appropriation" is when the Nazis adopted the Swastika (卍) from Indian religions and therefore gave it a bad name.
Barbaric philosophy of SJWs conclude that cultural appropriation is a grave sin. This SJW philosophy has very common traits with racial segregation, apartheid, racism, and likewise. Although SJWs believe that they're politically correct, this racist barbaric philosophy can easily be categorized under hate speech, discrimination, or racism, or in the support of thereof.
by hi im your average teabag October 17, 2018
Get the Cultural Appropriationmug. Cultural Appropriation is the act of believing that wearing an Asian inspired dress and putting a lampshade on your head while saying 'Ching chong willy wong' are as racist as each other.
Idiot 1: Yo I just cancelled someone for Cultural Appropriation.
Idiot 2: Yo why.
Idiot 1: They wore a dress with an Asian pattern.
Idiot 2: Wow, so inspirational. You are saving the world from all this racism.
Idiot 2: Yo why.
Idiot 1: They wore a dress with an Asian pattern.
Idiot 2: Wow, so inspirational. You are saving the world from all this racism.
by General Clanker March 3, 2021
Get the Cultural Appropriationmug.