Cultural appropriation is about psychological relations. It is about watering down a living relation to certain psychological contents and then converting that content into a conceptual reality. It is something that is done when we think we can access its content by rational means only. By omitting the relationship to a genuine psychological experience.
Our rational mind can only follow the natural flow of psychic life as it passes through us. But it is not from rationality it originates, it is not its source. And we cannot access that flow outside its own reality.
That knowledge is shared to us as we are going through the difficulties that surrounds it.
It is not something that is done by how we are dressed, or what attributes of a collective we identify ourselves with.
Cultural appropriation is the act of turning a psychological relation to life which does not belong to you, into an intellectual concept.