It's widely accepted conventional wisdom that when it comes to creative works—TV shows, films, music, books—consumers crave ...

Gwen Stefani recently came under fire for saying "I'm Japanese" in a new interview. Stefani is just one of many pop stars who have been accused of cultural appropriation over the years.

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that the Netflix series “Squid Games" is an example of the “cultural ties" between the United States and South Korea.

He’s not pulling any punches. Mike Tyson has taken a swing at Hulu’s newly announced biopic “Iron Mike,” deeming the straight-to-series project to be a gross example of “cultural ...

As an early example, in 2015 the student government association of the University of Ottawa canceled yoga classes, asserting they represented an insensitive example of cultural appropriation.

String figure games involve the manipulation of a loop of string with the fingers to create complex patterns. The researchers analyzed 826 string figures from 92 cultures around the world.

They probably don’t know why they were ever doing them … so it’s a cultural thing, so they’ll get together on the holidays, they’ll probably attend weddings and funerals that observe Islamic ...

Die Antwoord is a South African band that uses hip-hop music to create a style it calls “zef”. Since it first appeared in 2009, Die Antwoord has been criticised for cultural appropriation ...

The song is a magnificent example of cultural appropriation — a phrase at the intersection of our debates about language and race — and we should be glad of it. The song’s composers are white.

Cultural appropriation also depends on dominance and power differentials, pointed out Kenneth J. Varner, an associate professor of literacy education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Red ...

The UCLA team, Taylor Webb, Keith Holyoak, and Hongjing Lu, relied on a large collection of ways that past research has tested humans' ability to reason via analogy.

A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation. Journal of The Royal Society Interface , 2024; 21 (221) DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0673 Cite ...