Cultural appropriation is when someone of another culture adopts they style or elements of another culture. Cultural appropriation is often framed as cultural misappropriation which is framed as harmful and violating collective intellectual property rights of the originating culture.
A good example of this is Rachel Dolezal she is a formal American Civil Rightest her self identification as black came under speculation in June after Dolezal was asked by reporters about a photo of a African American man on her Facebook she was asked if this man was her father she said yes but refused to confirm if she was black and left the interview abruptly. Her parents later exposed her saying that she "disguised" herself as an African American. They produced a copy of her birth certificate with german and Czech heritage with a very distant African link. She now describes herself as transblack.

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