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Cultural Amalgamation Origins
Cultural amalgamation origins begin when individuals from two different cultures encounter each other and combine their influences without either culture dominating the other. Neither culture is required to sacrifice their unique culture’s qualities to merge with the other culture. They both benefit from the other's sharing of cultural practices and advances in various areas, such as technology. Each culture remains uniquely different from the other and retain their exotic appearance.

Through cultural amalgamation, each individual representing their culture has a mutual appreciation for the other's cultural values. The benefits of the cultural exchange embodies the social dynamics, inventions, knowledge, education, spiritual practices, language, artistic expressions, food, authentic clothing and social norms of from each culture.

Historically, cultural amalgamation aided in enhancing each individual or group’s materiality. In the social sciences, materiality is described as the use of cultural artifacts and how they are incorporated into the receiving culture's use. The way the new material is received and embraced by another culture depends on the contribution and new impact the artifact makes on the other culture.

Amalgamation is also known as miscegenation. When different cultural groups come into contact with each other, marriages occur. This in turn creates a genetic mergence through the birth of children.