GS221 Lecture 5: Hybridization
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The idea of diaspora means to scatter and includes three core elements (dispersion, homeland orientation, and boundary maintenance) Feelings of nostalgia become central to reproducing identity. Article eat pig and become a beast , ojwang writes that food encodes histories of resistance, accommodation, and cultural exchange in contexts marked by racialism, violence, expulsions and inequality. Comes from botany (crossing of two distantly related strains to produce a new plant with novel properties produced by the genetic mixing) Related terms: fusion mixing/the potential of mixing, creole super-mixing" of identity, flexibility, mobility ability to move around the world, adaptation, recognizable, but de/reconstructed. Heterogenization: world is becoming increasingly different, culturally, local identities, cultures, values, resist the pressure to conform, culture is in the tradition , tribalism.
