Interculture

Quick meaning: Interculture is a noun meaning (sociology) A new culture formed by the merging of aspects of existing cultures.

Meaning

(sociology) A new culture formed by the merging of aspects of existing cultures.

Example Sentences

Murdock's play stages a struggle over the character of America's rising youth, setting its conflicts in an early national Philadelphia profoundly altered by slave revolt and the presence of problematic Creole intercultures.

The practice of humbling oneself in the process of deep listening is a profound experience at the heart of affinity intercultures, the global, political, highly musical networks that happen when musicians of different backgrounds get together to play (Stanyek 2004a, 93).

As one is exposed to customs and practices of different cultures throughout one's life, one evolves through new intercultures. The intercultures may be regarded as steps within a continuing nonlinear process of cultural negotiation. This process involves a combination of retaining previous rules and practices, adapting some from the previous interculture and adopting some from the other culture.

Word Forms

• intercultures

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transculturation, neoculturation, transculturization, transculturisation, interculturation, biculturation.

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