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  2. Miscegenation - Wikipedia

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    Before the publication of Miscegenation, the words racial intermixing and amalgamation were used as general terms for ethnic and racial genetic mixing. Contemporary usage of the amalgamation metaphor, borrowed from metallurgy , was that of Ralph Waldo Emerson 's private vision in 1845 of America as an ethnic and racial smelting-pot, a variation ...

  3. Cultural amalgamation - Wikipedia

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    The origins of cultural amalgamation: When people from the Chinese culture meet people from the European culture and greet each other. Cultural amalgamation refers to the process of mixing two cultures to create a new culture. [1] [2] It is often described as a more balanced type of cultural interaction than the process of cultural assimilation.

  4. Amalgamation - Wikipedia

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    Amalgamation (race), a now largely archaic term for the merger of people of different ethnicities and "races" Amalgamation, another name for a trade union, chiefly used in the UK; Amalgamation, in C (programming language) (C) and C++ programming, merging all the source codes of a library into a single header file

  5. Patio process - Wikipedia

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    The patio process was the first form of amalgamation. However, it is unclear whether this process or a similar process—in which amalgamation occurred in heated vats rather than open patios—was the predominant form of amalgamation in New Spain, as the earliest known illustration of the patio process dates from 1761.

  6. Synoecism - Wikipedia

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    From this history the word and concept of "democracy" is derived. This synoecism was one of the primary causes of the Kyklos in ancient Hellas. Synoecism also occurred at Mantineia: in the fifth century, after its synoecism, it became a democracy; in the fourth century, it was again divided ("dioikismos") and an oligarchy formed.

  7. A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation, in the Year of Our ...

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    Practical Amalgamation. First of a series of five, in the series "Life in Philadelphia." Anti-amalgamation cartoon by E. W. Clay. New York: Published by J. Childs, 1839. [20] Courtesy of The Library Company of Philadelphia. Holgate had strong ties to the anti-abolition movement and advocates the perspectives of the group throughout his novel. [3]

  8. Religious syncretism - Wikipedia

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    The gods Persephone-Isis and Hades-Serapis, an example of Greco-Egyptian religious syncretism. Religious syncretism is the blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition.

  9. Blend word - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a blend is an amalgamation or fusion of independent lexemes, while a portmanteau or portmanteau morph is a single morph that is analyzed as representing two (or more) underlying morphemes.