English Dictionary

culture vulture

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə ˌvʌlt͡ʃə/

名詞

ユーモラス文体 くだけた表現 軽蔑的 俗語

(informal, humorous) A person with an inauthentic and rapacious, possibly forced, interest in the arts. / (informal, derogatory) A creative maker who copies rather than creates original work.

日本語の意味

芸術や文化に対して、見せかけの（または不自然な）強い興味や熱中を示す人。 / （侮蔑的な表現）オリジナルな創造ではなく、他者の作品を模倣することで評価を得ようとするクリエーター。

At the gallery opening, he behaved like a culture vulture, praising every overpriced piece he had never really cared about.

ギャラリーのオープニングで、彼は偽りの芸術愛好家のように振る舞い、本当は興味がないのに値段が張る作品をすべて褒めちぎっていた。

意味（1）

(informal, humorous) A person with an inauthentic and rapacious, possibly forced, interest in the arts.

[…] -- 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.

意味（2）

(informal, derogatory) A creative maker who copies rather than creates original work.

意味（3）

(derogatory, slang, social justice) Someone who engages in cultural appropriation.

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.

culture vultures （ plural ）