In a message dated 1/11/02 1:31:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Now "melting pots" are slightly different - when you throw cultures and ethnoses into a melting pot, are they supposed to dilute into the stock, losing their own identity (= assimiliation) ? Or are they supposed to melt together *with each other* to form a new and (at least somewhat varied) whole? >>
The first definition: a dilution of cultural identity when surrounded by the influences of other cultures can properly be called "cultural diffusion". That term has been in use for at least the past 3 decades. Jon
