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 03, 2021
The notion that its racist and evil for a white person to wear dreads or corn rows. If you happen to be white and think this is hypochrisy as ca 90% of black women make their hair staight and/or use fake hair, you are also evil and racist because culturel appropriation (and racism) only works one way.
If you are white and dont stick to a purely white style, as defined by others and not you, you are abusing other races style aka cultural appropriation, which is racist and evil because you are white and thus have no right to steal other races style.
by BullyBanana May 28, 2017
A social construction by sociologists involving an unenforceable non-legally binding property right that doesn't actually exist which infringes on a person's right to extract facts from the public domain in the creation of their own intellectual property.
By creating a work of art, which is your property, which uses the language I natively speak, you are engaging in cultural appropriation, even though you can't copyright a natural language or dialect.
by qbert04 November 22, 2020
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.
by Thystle April 26, 2021
Foreigners come to a country, purchase or steal land and then develop it as their own while forcing out native inhabitants or using them as cheap labor. cultural appropriation, aborigines, native americans, America, stealing,steal, redistribute, conquer, manifest destiny, claim
Jamaica is a beautiful land, but the super rich have come in here and used territorial appropriation to take over the entire island.
by joecoolthefool January 11, 2016
When you are a bad singer and try to cover Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and so you get awfully out of pitch and then someone tries to sing it too and also get out of pitch and so they are appropriating your culture of getting out of pitch.
John: *singing I Will Always Love You out of pitch*
Mary: *also singing I Will Always Love You out of pitch*
John: Hey, I got out of pitch first. Stop appropriating my vocal capacities, that's vocal appropriation!
Mary: *also singing I Will Always Love You out of pitch*
John: Hey, I got out of pitch first. Stop appropriating my vocal capacities, that's vocal appropriation!
by youhadmeatok January 31, 2016
Aidan claims he was the first to stan the band STRFKR but everyone knew Katherine was. In other words he committed swag appropriation.
by swag greedy October 04, 2018

