culture vulture

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkʌlt͡ʃə ˌvʌlt͡ʃə/    美 /ˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹ ˌvʌlt͡ʃəɹ/

英文释义

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

词形变化

culture vultures plural culture-vulture alternative

词源

From culture + vulture.
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