Hybridity and mixing are eroding fixed cultural differences and generating new identities.

Evidence

Another theme is the growing concern with hybridity, mixing, metissage. As societies become more diverse, intermarriage also increases, cultural differences criss-cross and in the process generate new identities, and new differences. Cultural differences erode over time, due to globalization, changing identities, and consumption patterns, while local and regional reactions to globalization generate new identities and differences. Amidst this flux, the old notions of otherness are increasingly outdated. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 206

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Multiculture can operate where ethnic difference escapes normative supervision. — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 78; All cultures arise from mixture, so hybridity theory restates an essentialist error. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 915; Hybridity theorists and conservative commentators both treat ethnicity as rooted identity. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 914