Cultural identity emerges from shared base elements uniquely combined in each local setting.

Evidence

In the visits I made in connection with the series, what amazed me was the presence of the same, basic trace elements (similarity), together with the ways these had been uniquely combined into different configurations in each place (difference). … Nevertheless, the distinctive habits, customs, and social etiquette of Barbados are so clearly a translation, through African slavery, of that small-scale, intimate plantation culture that refigured the Barbadian landscape. … Everywhere, hybridity, différance. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 832

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concretely defines hybridity/différance as shared trace elements rendered distinct through local combination.
• XREF: This is the classic Hall formulation distinguishing identity-as-being (return to roots) from identity-as-becoming (routes); directly feeds Islamophobia field’s construction of the ‘Other.’ — connects to: Local class reception shapes how Western capital implants in new spaces. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1162; Local identity categories often explain linguistic practice better than analysts’ broad sociological categories. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 35
• ADDENDUM: Extends the grafting/root-grafts metaphor into cultural identity: shared rhizomic base recombined per place.