GROUP 2

DYNAMICS OF LOCAL

AND GLOBAL CULTURE

HYBRIDIZATION
 What is Hybridization?
 Refers to the process of cultural and ethnic mixing to produce new or ‘creole’ forms .

 When hybridization occurred, they adopted each other’s language and adapted cultural practices.

 However, plantation society was the institution under which hybridization became deeply established
in Caribbean society and culture.

 It emphasizes the integration of local and global culture.

 POSITIVE EFFECTS OF NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF
CULTURAL DIVERSITY CULTURAL DIVERSITY
1 1
We enjoy a variety of food, festivals, music and Ethnic politics develops, with political parties
cultural expressions such as dance. becomes polarized according to race.

2 2
One can learn to appreciate other cultures and
an array of perspectives by growing up in
society.
3
Persons learn from an early age that conflicts
is endemic and that they need skills of
negotiation and alliance building to
accommodate all the many perspectives that
arise.
Ethnic hate arises out of the feeling of ethnic
superiority compounded by perceptions that one
group is getting more of the national pie than
one’s own group.
3
Ethnic prejudices are perpetuated through
socialization within the family, which is
reinforced in interaction with friends and
acquaintances.
Racial and Ethnic These mixed races were named as follows:

Hybridization a) Afro-Amerindian :
Douglab

Amerindian, African, and Indian women (to a b) Afro-European: Mulatto

lesser extent), were forced to cohabit with and
c)Euro-Amerinidian :
have children for the European conquistadors,
Mestizo
slave masters and overseers. Sexual unions
between persons of different races, resulting in
children of mixed race, is called
Miscegenation.
Afro-Amerindian : Douglab Euro-Amerinidian : Mestizo

Afro-European: Mulatto
 This term is defined as the development of
new cultural forms out of existing ones
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Cultura
through a period of contact and interaction. It
on also includes cultural traditions, language and
i d i z at i
Hy b r different mass communications from a society
and mixing it into another society creating a
new culture from its current one.
 The
Processes of Cultural
Hybridization
Cultural Erasure, Cultural
Retention and Cultural
Renewal
Cultural Erasure
 This refers to practices that have died out or are dying out.

Cultural Retention
 This refers to practices that have survived even when most other forms and symbols of
culture are no longer evident.

Cultural Renewal
 This occurs when a group goes through a conscious rejuvenation process and returns
to some elements of its culture, which it believes have been ignored or suppressed.
CULTURAL •

•
Encult

Assim
uration

CHANGE
ilation
• Transc
ulturat
ion
 Enculturation
This is a process of socialization whereby a person becomes part of another‟s culture.

Assimilation
The process of integration whereby immigrants or other minority groups are absorbed into a
generally larger community.

Transculturation
This describes the process whereby a culture changes drastically, actually overcoming
itself and translating into something new.

Interculturation
This refers to the mixing of cultures that goes on between groups who share a space.
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