cultural blend
Traditions merging together
A cultural blend is the mixing of elements from different cultures—traditions, foods, languages, art forms, music—into something new.
The term describes both the process and the result: American jazz is a cultural blend of African rhythms and European harmonies.
Unlike assimilation, which implies one culture absorbing another, cultural blend suggests mutual influence and synthesis.
- fusionJoining into unity
- salad bowlDish for tossed greens
- melting potCultural fusion place
- hybridThing of mixed parentage
- mosaicInlaid pictorial arrangement
diversity · mixed heritage · heritage · tradition · old world · new world · assimilation · crossover · mestizo · creole · syncretic · cosmopolitan · diaspora · immigrant · exchange · influence · tapestry · intermingle
cultural blendcultural isolation
Separation from outside societies
ghettoization · cultural enclave · compartmentalization · segregation · separatism
cultural blendmonoculture
Single-crop agricultural system
cultural authenticity · purism · nativism · traditionalism · cultural preservation
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