culture vulture
A person or an organization making profit using unhonorable practices from a culture they do not care for.Example in Music: Major
record labels signing the latest viral rapper, exploiting them for the max returns even if their music sucks.Example in TV Shows/Movies: Creating and popularizing a gay character in the pursuit of the LGBT
community's cash.Example in Video Games: Selling DLC for the same price of a full game, selling micro-transactions items that should be in a game for free to start with and selling
Pay To Win items that will give players a huge advantage over other gamers in a competitive environment.
culture vulture
by shaniqua2 on Dec 28, 2006 07:18:37
Someone who
steals traits, language and/or fashion from another
ethnic or social group in order to create their own
identity.
Example:
Todd just bought himself a
Fubu track suit and changed his name to
Tyrone. He is such a culture vulture!
culture vulture
by pseudo-nympho on Nov 14, 2013 10:09:15
A person who loves art, music, movies, and dance, and all forms of culture so much that they consume whatever they find, whether or not it's any good. Like birds that scavenge by the roadside, culture-vultures feast on art wherever they find it. They will listen
to Mozart in the concert hall or the punk in a club; their clothes are as likely to come from the thrift store as they are a boutique shop; they have Architecture Digest on the coffee table while they watch
MTV Cribs. They consult the Oxford English Dictionary but double-check the Urban Dictionary. Culture vultures are especially good at talking about
low art and culture with the same insight and intelligence as
high art.
Example:
While I have always preferred the later symphonies of Beethoven to that infernal racket they play across the hall, when Liz came over, she explained that Beethoven was "giving the finger to the man" just like punk. It wasn't my first clue that she was a culture-vulture. On our second date, she wanted to show me some graffiti across the street from the museum where we saw the
Surrealist drawings. We stopped to get a hot dog but she insisted on putting her own
Dijon mustard on it, which she pulled out of her knockoff Gucci bag as though it were no big deal.
Culture vulture, indeed!
Culture Vulture
by New age definitions on Nov 21, 2016 04:55:50
A Culture Vulture is a practitioner of
cultural appropriation. A Culture Vulture is an
inauthentic individual who attempts to identify with aspects of another culture and
claim it as their own. They do this by mimicking aspects of culture that belong to another group of people and not giving credit where credit is due, which creates the illusion that the aspect of culture they are mimicking is authentic to them. They also do this by claiming that certain aspects of another group of people's culture originated with them, with no historical proof to back their claims.
Example:
"If you were so proud of being white you'd take more pride in white culture, vs. being a
culture Vulture and attempting to assume the cultural identity of others through mimicking them and
signing your
signature on other people's work."
Culture Vulture
by Container on Oct 07, 2003 16:15:44
A
scavenger, circling the media, looking for scraps of originality to add to their
conceit. They sport eclectic styles and tastes, always recognisable as having been borrowed without
adaption or refinement from elsewhere.
Culture Vulture
by Notbot on Mar 25, 2010 04:53:14
Someone who is extremely interested in
classical forms of art. Their tastes are considered high
brow, possibly to the point of
annoyance.
Example:
I can't get her to do anything normal for fun, man. She acts like summer
blockbusters and video games are beneath her, and only likes the old dead stuff -
symphony, opera, museums. She's a total
culture vulture.
Culture Vulture
by J1mmyTh1cc on Jun 23, 2017 17:49:03
A person who attempts to steal a
culture to
fit in with their
idols and be part of a group.
Culture vulture
by It's a two way street on Mar 06, 2021 04:24:02
A person of African
culture who steals other
cultures then claims a race they have
stolen from has no culture
Woke Culture Vulture
by F-Face Kat on Jun 30, 2021 03:42:19
Anyone who
seeks to find something offensive in something that really isn't offensive in hopes of causing massive
outrage while getting social media
approval in the process.
Example:
I can't believe
the Woke Culture
Vultures came and found something offensive with what Barry said --
None of us even knew saying someone who had dark eyes was offensive, racist, problematic, misogynistic and rooted in white Supremacy.
Vulture Culture
by FreezingHeart on Apr 05, 2016 15:13:29
Part of the practice of
taxidermy. The act of Vulture Culture is to search of the remains of an animal and take it with the intention of using the remains for taxidermy (
skinning, using
the bones/skeleton; etc).
Example:
"Dude how's the Vulture Culture going?"
"Found a lot of
dead birds but I really want to find a
raccoon for my
skull collection."