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Originally Posted by Oberon
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People share and learn things over time.
Over Generations.
We can, after such developments, call this cultures.
Let's take for example traditional and modern cultures.
They may be similar in some ways but in other ways they are very different.
Traditional culture - relationships, immediate and extended family as a few examples.
Modern Culture - 1 example is business life is seperate from personal life.
In traditional culture, business and personal life are often the same.
Ie business partners often family members etc.
Another difference between the 2 is traditional culture usually stays the same for long periods of time.
Modern culture, feeds off change.
Now, my point in mentioning the above is that these differences can have various 'consequences' for the people in those aforementioned 'cultures'.
Sustainability is one.
Or the ability to sustain oneself.
Also for consideration as to why/how different cultures mixing, poses 'consequences' is in the
ways of thinking.
Cultural differences in marriages.
Crossing cultures where everyone is NOT equal.
Sure in one culture, without mixing, you have inequality.
But we are talking about mixing 2 different cultures together.
Now modern and traditional cultures are certainly different examples than lets say 2 cultures based purely on ethnic backgrounds/origins.
And when we talk about ethnic mixing then some of the examples above certainly are more than acceptable to use as examples.
I mentioned history has shown us that the mixing of cultures purely based on a ethnic or racial background does not work.
Australia is one such example.
To this day, the racial divide widens ever further.
(And for someone to say that Australia is not a racist country is laughable)
I use the word racism here because it's a consequence of mixing.
Britain has also 'suffered' from the influx of migrants, asylum-seekers, illegal and legal just as Germany, Italy, Greece and a host of others have.
If you were to mention that in the media in particular, the mixing of 2 (or more in some countries) cultures, is portrayed as mainly a success.
The mixing of cultures and its consequences is far more deep-rooted than sharing and learning from each other, which goes to a point of difference i made earlier.
Something else to ponder:
family values
religious beliefs
work ethic
family structure
forming and reforming family, amongst others
intermarriage
sex roles
child birth and rearing
language maintenance
cultural identity