cultural appropriator

noun

One who engages in cultural appropriation.

Meanings

nouncultural appropriator (plural cultural appropriators)

plural cultural appropriators

  1. human sciencesOne who engages in cultural appropriation.
    1 more example

    Though Ms. Mnouchkine is more of a blithe cultural appropriator than a purveyor of stereotypes, the sex-crazed sheikhs seem to go too far. “A Room in India” also tries, with mixed success, to see if terrorists can be made funny, in the manner of the Keystone Kops. And yet, for all of the company’s catholic tastes, there are lines of relativism it will not cross.

    2017 December 6, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions”, in The New York Times

Translations

Finnish kulttuurinen omija
  • kulttuurinen omijaone who engages in cultural appropriation
Cite this entry
APA

cultural appropriator. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultural%20appropriator

MLA

“cultural appropriator.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultural%20appropriator. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cultural appropriator,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultural%20appropriator.

Source: cultural appropriator on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.