Cultural adaptation remakes identity and thereby raises habitual creativity.

Evidence

Because culture is such a pervasive force, impacting and shaping literally every aspect of one’s life, adapting oneself to a new culture—learning how to feel, behave, and think in a different way, in short, learning how to become a different person altogether—may make individuals chronically aware of multiple perspectives and approaches when dealing with even mundane and novel situations and thus lead to increased chronic levels of creativity. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2230

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anishinaabeg cultural revival adapts the ancestral lifeway to present circumstances — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 690