Cultural amalgamation

The origins of cultural amalgamation: When people from the Chinese culture meet people from the European culture and greet each other.

Cultural amalgamation refers to the process of mixing two cultures to create a new culture.[1][2] It is often described as a more balanced type of cultural interaction than the process of cultural assimilation.[3][4] Cultural amalgamation does not involve one group's culture changing another group's culture (acculturation)[5] or one group adopting another group's culture (assimilation).[6][1] Instead, a new culture results.[1] This is the origin of cultural amalgamation. It is the ideological equivalent of the melting pot theory.[1]

The term cultural amalgamation is often used in studies on post–civil rights era in the United States and contemporary multiculturalism and multiracialism.[7][1] For instance, the cultural amalgamation process happened with the fall of the Roman empire when the Middle Ages started and Roman Jewish/Christian culture and Germanic tribal cultures mixed with each other in the European continent.[8][9] In present day, cultural amalgamation occurs with immigration.[4]

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  3. ^ Ian Keen; Takako Yamada (2001). Identity and Gender in Hunting and Gathering Societies: Papers Presented at the Eighth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 8), National Museum of Ethnology, October 1998. National Museum of Ethnology. p. 167.
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  7. ^ Sexton, Jared Yates (2008). Amalgamation schemes: antiblackness and the critique of multiracialism. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-5663-9. OCLC 318220788.
  8. ^ Johansen, Bruce E. (2015-09-22). American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum. [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-2874-4.
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