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Appropriation's typically about dominant cultural groups appropriating the cultural objects, practices etc. of minority or marginalised groups - that's how it's written about in the literature I'm familiar with, anyway. For an example, sometimes the objection is put in terms of members of the dominant culture profiting from those things produced by or in the minority or marginalised culture, while members of the latter remain in poor circumstances and/or estranged from the platforms and possibilities to profit in the same way. But it's conceptualised in all sorts of ways. Of course, if you take out the domination aspect, then things flatten and look weird. I don't know why you'd do that though. There are plenty of points at which to find the strategy and its concepts objectionable on the basis of vexed philosophical issues, but the same can be said of any attempt to conceptualise something like this. Whether the whole thing stands up will depend on broader issues about the shape of cultural groups and dilemmas and so on and so forth at the lower levels.