culture vultures

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
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...