Indian cultural approciation

Taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else's culture without permission. This can include unauthorized use of another culture's dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols, etc.

It's most likely to be harmful when the source community is a minority group that has been oppressed or exploited in other ways or when the object of appropriation is particularly sensitive, e.g. sacred objects.

United States: cultural appropriation almost always involves members of the dominant culture (or those who identify with it) “borrowing” from the cultures of minority groups

‘melting pot’ vs cultural appropriation

Subject Appropriation: when an outsider makes the culture or lives of insiders the subject of a painting, story, film, or other work of art.

Content Appropriation: When an artist uses the cultural products of another culture in the production of his or her own art. E.g. Musicians who perform the songs of a culture that is not their own; a writer who retells the legends produced by members ofanother culture; White musicians who perform in a jazz or blues style developed by African Americans.

Object Appropriation: when the possession of a tangible object (such as a sculpture) is transferred from members of the culture that produced it to the possession of outsiders.