Every culture changes through borrowing, theft, and transgression despite itself

Evidence

It follows that every culture develops heterogeneously, whether through social intercourse and interaction, commercial transaction, inadvertent or purposeful borrowing, youthful transgressions, or outright theft. It is of the very nature of culture, accordingly, that despite itself, in spite of its disposition qua cultural identity to repeat and reproduce itself, it could develop into something else. The threat to (a) culture is that it could become something different, lose its (current) identity, cease to be by seeing what it takes as its core convictions, values, or commitments eroded. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1891

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the homogeneity passage above; together they form the contrarian core that homogeneity is the ideology while mixture is the reality.