“The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement, and burial in the mines of the native population of that continent…. these are all things that characterize the destruction of the era of capitalist production” (Marx, 915). Similarly, appropriation can be seen as a capitalist exploitation of a group's cultural resources in order to achieve social gain or express social dominance in a multicultural society. Modern society manages to overwhelm the weak and deprive them of what they consider valuable. In addition to historically exploiting and destroying their land; according to Marx, people themselves become commodities if they do not possess the means of progress, such as minorities. Although it is true that the capitalist drive for power and wealth exploits and damages the working class, it is also true, according to Fanon, that all forms of exploitation are similar. In this case, couldn't it be said that exploiting resources for wealth is no different from exploiting a culture's practices for social gain? In modern society, it almost seems as if the culture of the oppressed is simply another resource to be extracted from the minority, for the benefit of the majority. Furthermore, cultural appropriation is also beneficial to the dominant society, which can choose “exotic” and