Transculturation

The concept of transculturation is a term coined by Fernando Ortiz in 1940 cultural studies concept with which the phenomenon of the influence of cultures is described to others. Ortiz used the term in a conscious distinction from the spread in the 1930s in the U.S. anthropology terminus of acculturation.

The following important transculturation tions are listed:

• The Japanese influence is the influence of Japanese culture in foreign cultures
• The Sinicisation is the influence of Chinese culture in foreign cultures (eg Tibet)
• The Islamization, especially during the Islamic expansion
• The Christianization, especially during the European expansion
• The Romanization of the Roman Empire
• The Hellenization of the Hellenistic period ( ancient Greece)
• The hispanisation Central and South America
• The Anglicization of North America, Australia and New Zealand
• The Frenchification of Brussels in the 19th and 20th centuries
• The policies of the Magyarization, Germanization and Russification 1900
• The embossed by Italian fascism policy Italianisation after the First World War
• The Americanization since the 20th century

Transculturation takes place including through migration ( for example, historically the spread of African slaves to America ), by official power or policy by influencing the mass media as well as the original language, can mixed languages ​​arise where short or long term.