To me cultural appropriation is a word used to beat people over the head and shame them into staying within what the MSmockingbirdM declares it to be.

There really isn't a culture in The US. It is a mixture or many many cultures. And it differs from place to place.

What seems to be happening is the state is trying to make everyone without a god, without a culture, without a history, so that they are as easy as possible to mold into cogs for the machine.