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cultural appropriation

inappropriate adoption of elements of one culture by members of another, typically dominant, culture
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cultural appropriation

Summary

cultural appropriation is a term[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of term entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,914 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • cultural appropriation's instance of is recorded as term[3].
  • cultural appropriation is a type of derivative work[4].
  • cultural appropriation's Commons category is recorded as Cultural appropriation[5].
  • cultural appropriation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cultural appropriation[6].

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Designation and Status

cultural appropriation's instance of is recorded as term[3].

Why It Matters

cultural appropriation ranks in the top 3% of term entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,914 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] It is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cultural-appropriation_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cultural appropriation}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cultural-appropriation}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-01}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 20d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bibliothèque nationale de france id → 18004355b
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P268]]: 18004355b"
  2. 27d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → topic/cultural-appropriation
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1417]]: topic/cultural-appropriation"
  3. 9w ago · Dgyrandy · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → inappropriate adoption of elements of one culture by members of another, typical
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||en, ja */"
  4. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → appropriation
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: appropriation, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289909446|appropriation (#289909446)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  5. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Instance of → term
    Instance of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Cultural appropriation
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|16 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 35073, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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