culture contact

is a processes involving the odd fact that group 'a' may do 'xyz' internally but, when encountering another group externally, they might do 'cdf'.

groups may do XYZ internally but externally, they do CDF. 'where a native population is brought for the first time in contact with Europeans-- that, for some time after the shift, the two parties to such a situation will behave in an exploratory or almost random manner, each retaining its own norms and not yet developing any special adjustments to the situation of contact' (Bateson Steps 93).

 necessarily follows this pattern: when barbarians come into contact with a higher culture, the lower culture accepts first of all the vices, weaknesses, and excesses and only then accepts some of the overflow of what really has value.

What happens when barbarians come into contact with a higher culture-the lower culture always accepts first of all the vices, weaknesses, and excesses and only then, on that basis, finds a certain attraction in the higher culture and eventually, by way of the vices and weaknesses that it has acquited, also accepts some of the overflow of what really has value-that can also be observed nearby. without traveling to remote barbarian tribes. Of course. what we see near us is somewhat refined and spiritualized and not quite so palpable.

culture contact, n.All

culture contact