I think "cultural appropriation" doesn't really exist. If you think a culture as the expression of the existence of some human beings since we all are human beings we can find expression of our own humanity in every culture.

I think the reason why you feel like it doesn't have meaning to believe that our biological "identity" could be a start instead of a state, is because we live in a society of people that are focused on their ego instead of their being human. Being human is thinking being aware of humanity, not just of us and of our offsprings. The attitude of egocentrism has created a system where we feel like we have to have a greater ego than a greater humanity to succeed. We feel like we have to do a lot of things because we have to, but we don't know if we want them and we don't know what we want. There comes a point when you realize that a lot of things we do don't make sense. We do have to accomplish in some way a biological end, survival, but we have o survive being aware of the fact that everything changes, and that we have to adapt in order to continue being human beings and not to turn into something else. I think we should explore ourselves and the way we think and find humanity, an ideal that has the chance to become visible when we realize that what we thought made sense doesn't anymore and we have to look for a "greater" sense.

indeed, if there is no humanity there are also not real humans, so I guess we're there. The problem now is that there are few people that "see" humanity and that think humanity. So are we humans even if we don't see humanity, or if we don't express our humanity by really thinking ?

I think you give a lot of things for granted if I'd all think like human beings we would all philosophize and there would be fewer problems in the world, more questions but fewer problems. Our being human does not come simply from biological aspects, we have to do something with our ability to think. Of course, we always think, but is that thinking human? I see humans but not humanity. Are we being humans? Or are we just settling because we think we are smarter than any other species?

And since our mind is our dimensions in some way, could this way of living make us become less human beings or different ones? Think about birds, most birds fly, but then there are birds that live in little cages in peoples apartments, and they might never know that they can fly. And there are birds like penguins that found themselves in a situation in which swimming was best for their survival so they started to do so. What I'm trying to ask is, can we become or are we becoming different human beings? Because we started to use our minds (wings) to think in a different way (swim) instead of really thinking like human beings (fly)?