Cultural mixing exceeds racial mixing precisely because it goes unobserved

Evidence

From the outset, European culture was taken by the settlers to be elevated, where the indigenous were recognized to have culture at all. As in Latin America, euro-mimesis set the imposed cultural standard, the horizon of rationality, of intellectual prowess and aesthetic metric. No matter, though. Cultural métissage, policed as it is, nevertheless usually far outstrips the miscegenational. Not least because it creeps up unsuspectingly, takes hold unexpectedly, and settles in unmentionably. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1330

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces euro-mimesis as the imposed colonial standard of rationality and taste; also defines cultural metissage (mixing) as distinct from and exceeding miscegenation.
• XREF: Echoes and extends the earlier chapter’s work (wherever the reader flagged cultural influence flowing one direction) and connects to creolization theory in Latin American and Caribbean studies. — connects to: Cultural mixing outpaced racial mixing at the colonial Cape despite policing. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1330; Unbiased transmission cannot maintain cultural boundaries under any mixing — Joe Henrich and Robert Boyd, The Evolution of Conformist…, 26