My Culture Is Not Your Costume

My Culture Is Not Your Costume , also written My Culture Is Not A Costume , is a catchphrase related to Halloween costumes that are perceived as cultural appropriation and racist. The primary example is Native American Halloween costumes, which inspired the initial viral tweet that coined the catchphrase in October 2016. Thereafter, the phrase was used to caption image macros showing satirical examples of costumes that are culturally insensitive. This occurred on Twitter going into 2022.