culture vulture

Noun

culture vulture (plural culture vultures)

1. (humorous, informal) A person with a rapacious, sometimes inauthentic, interest in the arts.
   • […] —unless of course "culture" is thought to be something decoratively added when all else has been accomplished, the fairy on the Christmas tree: an approach which opens wide the way for culture-vultures and peddlars of arty gentility, upon whom "culture" sits (to misuse an image of T. S....1958, The Canadian Historical Review, volume 39, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 241
   • Around 59th and Lexington, where Dry Dock Savings Bank is located, pickings are lush for the purple-pantsuited culture vulture.1970 March 9, “The Culture Vulture's Swoop through Dry Dock Country [advertisement]”, in New York, volume 3, number 10, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 1
2. (derogatory, slang) Someone who engages in cultural appropriation; a cultural appropriator.
   • However, a different indigenous researcher sees the use of restorative justice circles by nonindigenous people as being more of culture vultures and taking culture applicable to them and ignoring a brutal history of abuse, oppression, and genocide.2020, Thomas Reed, “A Critical Review of the Native American Tradition of Circle Practices”, in Robin Throne, editor, Indigenous Research of Land, Self, and Spirit (Advances in Religious and Cultural...
   • Similarly, plug-in culture participates in a long history of cultural appropriation related to the construction of the male neoliberal subject. Think about Diplo, EDM producer-DJ and oft-accused "culture vulture," whose modus operandi involves applying Western, Eurocentric, and Americanized EDM...2022, Mike D’Errico, “Plug-in Cultures”, in Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, part I (Sonic Architectures)...