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cultural appropriator

cultural appropriator noun: one who engages in cultural appropriation.

Noun

cultural appropriator (plural cultural appropriators)

  1. One who engages in cultural appropriation.
    • 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...2017 December 6, Jesse Green, “Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions”, in The New York Times

Forms of cultural appropriator

pluralcultural appropriators

Questions about cultural appropriator

What does cultural appropriator mean?
Cultural appropriator means one who engages in cultural appropriation.
What part of speech is cultural appropriator?
Cultural appropriator is a noun.
What is the plural of cultural appropriator?
The plural of cultural appropriator is cultural appropriators.

Words near cultural appropriator in the dictionary

  1. cultural
  2. cultural anthropologist
  3. cultural anthropology
  4. cultural appropriation
  5. cultural appropriations
  6. cultural appropriator
  7. cultural appropriators
  8. cultural arbitraries
  9. cultural arbitrary
  10. cultural barbiturate
  11. cultural Bolshevik

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