Cultural amalgamation

The origins of cultural amalgamation and its distinction begins the moment individuals from one culture encounter individuals from another culture. Each cultural group and their people who represent their society appear exotic to the other group. There is no expectation for anyone in one culture to sacrifice their unique cultural qualities and attributes for the other distinct culture. Instead, there is an appreciation for the social norms, spirituality, language, artistic expressions, food, clothing and rituals that each group brings into the merge. Social integration occurs as each individual from their group independently represents their unique culture with a mutual appreciation and respect for each member of the other group and their cultural values. is described as the use of cultural artifacts and how they are incorporated by the receiving culture for their use. The other aspect is the nonmaterial advancements that consist of the various beliefs, creative ideas and attitudes expressed in a society. The value is determined by the type of impact and reception it receives as it is shared with the other culture, and then extended to more broad and diverse cultural groups. As a result, each group benefits from the other group by sharing their cultural practices, social advances and material advancements in order to develop and establish the new society. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu is credited as the social scientist who identified the term social capital, which embodies the following: • social dynamics • inventions • knowledge • education • spiritual practices • language • artistic expressions • food • authentic clothing • societal laws • social practices • social norms == Pierre Bourdieu’s social and cultural capital ==

Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of social and cultural capital embodies both nonmaterial and material attributes or assets. The objectification of the other culture extends beyond the arts or technology as cultural capital. Miscegenation The word amalgamation means miscegenation. When different cultural groups come into contact with each other, marriages occur. This in turn creates a genetic mergence through the birth of children. results after many generations. Bourdieu emphasised that the prime characteristic of cultural capital comes in the form of genetics and heritability. Combining DNA creates a source of origin as he felt genetics make a substantial contribution to inter-generational genetics merging to result in population increases. Procreating between two individuals from two isolated and different cultures creates a hybridization state in the resulting children. Bourdieu describes hybridization as a much more subtle, hidden or disguised form for powerful material contributions in comparison to other materialized forms that demonstrate an obvious physical result to attain economic capital gain. The merging of genetics through procreation is when miscegenation occurs with genetic transfer. == See also ==