what is cultural appropriation
A common example of cultural appropriation is the adoption of the iconography of another culture, and using it for purposes that are unintended by the original culture, or even offensive to that culture's mores.ultural and racial theorist George Lipsitz outlined this concept of cultural appropriation in his seminal term strategic anti-essentialism. Strategic anti-essentialism is defined as the calculated use of a cultural form, outside of your own, to define yourself or your group.