Meaning of culture vulture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person with a rapacious, sometimes inauthentic, interest in the arts.
   humorous, informal
2. Someone who engages in cultural appropriation; a cultural appropriator.
   derogatory, slang

Examples

“[…] —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. Eliot's) like a silk hat upon a Bradford millionaire.”

“Around 59th and Lexington, where Dry Dock Savings Bank is located, pickings are lush for the purple-pantsuited culture vulture.”

“Leaving aside for a moment the problem [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe was touching on with his vivid image of a play 'fresh from the pan', we can see that this is a man of the living theatre who was not interested in a culture-vulture audience.”

“[A] failed composer who thinks himself to be [Anton] Webern's successor, and his pretentious wife, a culture vulture.”

“Be a culture vulture by going to the ballet, opera or a classical concert.”

“A through northbound service to Finsbury Park […] was the 'Theatre Express'. It was meant to serve theatre-goers who lived on the main-line stops beyond Finsbury Park – say, Enfield. […] But there weren't enough culture vultures in places like Enfield to justify the service.”

“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.”

“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 styles to samples from global dance music communities.”

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