When is a costume, or a participation in a festival, not a cultural expropriation? Is there any costume, or participation in any festival, that is not a cultural expropriation? Why stop at other racial, ethnic, language, or religious groupings? Ms. Renzetti does not provide any framework for answering these questions.

A 65 year old international traveler is invited by local people to dress up in their costumes. She feels uncomfortable. Is this cultural expropriation? A 13 year old birthday party centres on eight girls dressing up in 1980's fashion, and going out to eat together. Is this cultural expropriation? Is a man cross dressing in women's clothes cultural expropriation? Is miming or dressing up as harlequin cultural expropriation? A small boy love dressing up as a sailor. None of this is clear in Ms. Renzetti's fuzzy framework.

And, is dressing up as a dinosaur an expropriation of the interests of another species, or another statement of Humans at the top of the living scale?