Umm hold up

As in a genuine study conducted on the matter? Never happened, probably never will. Poll conducted specifically to determine the average education level of said people? Again unlikely to ever happen and would probably be received as insulting rather than informative. Personal experience however has led me to the average educated level of high school grad with maybe a year or two of college/university. The more educated the less of said behaviour I've seen, generally. Of those I've had personal experience with only one had been outside the country and that was a high school trip to Mexico.

Ah. So more a personal opinion based on experience than a fact. Somewhat humorously, in your judgment based on your limited perspective, people with such views have limited perspectives. (Not an attack- just humorous and worth pointing out.) in my limited view of the world I know plenty of people who feel this way and have lived abroad, traveled the country and the world, speak multiple languages and have multiple degrees in skilled fields, but then again I live in an area that isn’t a solid reflection of what a good deal of the country or the world is like so that is perhaps biased. I also wonder if perhaps if we did examine other studies showing the target demographic outside of “slightly educated” and “having no experience with...” if there might be some patterns that might show there are statistically common factors that run parellel to those people who feel otherwise? All very interesting. @guest was certainly correct when they said the concept is a rabbit hole.

This entire concept has always fascinated me... I live in South Africa, a place lovingly deemed the rainbow nation. We're a hotpot of different races, cultures, beliefs etc. In fact, my race is Coloured. This is a recognized race of people who are of mixed heritage.
Where I'm from we all celebrate and mix and "appropriate" each other's cultures. If you wear a Zulu beads one day and a sari the next all whole eating sushi and celebrating eid truly nobody cares... we encourage each other to understand the cultures and when a style is pretty or food is good we complement it and try it... it doesn't make sense not to share something when others will enjoy it and understand it better after

I would agree. I think that it depends on the history between cultures too. For instance- while America is often called a “melding pot” of many races and cultures, and there is no “definitive” non native“American” culture, there is much racial tension and bad blood between groups here. Many races were in reasonable or advantages positions, and have dorect historical cause to indicate other groups took that from them. Other groups were disadvantaged from the beginning and held back. In modern tunes many of these groups live at a majority observable disadvantage in wealth, control, or other means to groups who’s ancestors repressed theirs. For those people who often had dignity, life, liberty, and property taken away, what they had left to call their own while living in a country they were actively excluded from was their culture. Despite being segregated, marginalized, and abused and stripped of so much, they often flourished culturally. Add to that mainstream American society often...

Had banned theor cultites or languages outright, attempted to destroy their individuality, often mocked those cultures and looked down upon them and considered practitioners to be social pariah. And remember that many who lived through that or were raised by those who did are still alive. To many of these people, to see a group that took freely from their ancestors try and absorb a culture that was almost destroyed or was beat upon is like a slap to the face. They may take offense that in a country with a dark history of taking what it wanted from certain people’s wothout consent, that they don’t even have the power to be who they are without that being “taken” as well. I’m not saying it is right or wrong- but I am saying that from that perspective one can understand how many are sensitive to the idea of cultural appropriation. That culture is a unique concept as are things like race depending on where in the world you go and what the history is like.