ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Cultural amalgamation

Cultural amalgamation means when different cultures come together and mix to make something new. Imagine you have a bunch of different colored Play-Doh. You can squeeze them all together and roll them around to make one big blob of different colors. That's like cultural amalgamation!

Let's say you have a friend who speaks Spanish and you speak English. You can share words from your language with each other and learn new things. Maybe your friend can teach you how to say "hola" (hello) in Spanish, and you can teach them how to say "hello" in English. This exchange of ideas and words is cultural amalgamation too!

Sometimes people move from one country to another and bring their culture with them. They might introduce new foods, music, clothes, and customs to the new place. Over time, these things become a part of the new culture too. This is cultural amalgamation too.

In summary, cultural amalgamation is like mixing different colored Play-Doh to make something new. It happens when different cultures share their ideas, customs, and traditions, and they all blend together to create a new culture.