Hybridization

The new transcultural forms which arise from cross-cultural exchange. Hybridization can be social, political, religious, or within language. For instance, the blend of traditional Voodoo and European Catholicism in some cultures in Brazil, or hybridized languages such as Creole French languages in countries like Haiti.

Hybridization can also occur when smaller groups in a colonized country blend their social, political, religious, or linguistic elements due to having more interactions as a result of colonization.