* Fusion of cultures: In the same way that people can have a mixed background, with parents originating in different continents, so too music can be a blend of influences.

During the Middle Ages, because of international Hanseatic trading routes and contingent migration during the Middle Ages, Saxons mixed with and had strong influences upon the languages and cultures of the North Germanic and Baltic and Finnic peoples, and also upon the Polabian Slavs and Pomeranian West Slavic people.

In addition to constant aeration, most cultures are manually mixed or stirred on a regular basis.

The idea of the Melting pot is a metaphor that implies that all the immigrant cultures are mixed and amalgamated without state intervention.

The arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century did not destroy the culture but transformed it deeply through the process of mestizaje, in which both cultures mixed.

In advancing the concept of salsa as a musical " sauce ", containing many different ingredients from various cultures mixed together, some point to the occasional use of non-Cuban forms in salsa, such as the Puerto Rican bomba.

Despite being a very common habit, it is a mildly taboo activity in most cultures, and the observation of the activity in another person may provoke mixed feelings of disgust and amusement.

The origins of the Nazi version of the theory of the master race were in 19th-century racial theories of Count Joseph Arthur De Gobineau, who argued that cultures degenerated when distinct races mixed.

Because of the town's abrupt decline and silting of the river, many archeological sites have been preserved, making it one of the richest areas for studying the mixed history of Native and colonial cultures, including that of enslaved Africans.

According to his theories, the mixed populations of Spain, most of France and Italy, most of Southern Germany, most of Switzerland and Austria, and parts of the Britain, derived from the historical development of Roman, Greek, and Ottoman Empires which had opened up Europe to non-Aryan peoples of Africa and the Mediterraneum cultures.

However, as documented in the book review, " THE TWO BABYLONS: A Case Study in Poor Methodology ", by Ralph Woodrow, which appeared in volume 22, number 2 ( 2000 ) of the Christian Research Journal ( Article DC187 ), Two Babylons Hislop was an exceptionally poor researcher who " picked, chose and mixed " portions of various unrelated myths from many different cultures.

Although it is of rather disputed origin due to the mixed cultures in the Levant and East Mediterranean, halloumi is currently registered as a protected Cypriot product within the US ( since the 1990s ) but not yet the EU.

As Jerusalem changed hands and European forces moved back and forth, in-roads to the Levant were reestablished and the cultures mixed on a large scale for the first time in centuries.

The minstrel show texts sometimes even mixed black lore, such as stories about talking animals or slave tricksters, with humor from the region southwest of the Appalachians, itself a mixture of traditions from different races and cultures.

Pidgin is a mixed language that has developed to help communication between members of different cultures in contact, usually occurring in situations of trade or colonialism.

* H. Verachtert, Lambic and gueuze brewing: mixed cultures in action, Foundation Biotechnical and Industrial Fermentation research, Vol.

There are often authentic accounts of the origin of chimeras by spontaneous or induced mutations, by the sorting-out from variegated seedlings after plastid mutation, by grafting, by the layering of mixed populations of cells within callus tissue cultures, and by somatic hybridization through protoplast fusion.

However, as documented in the book review, " THE TWO BABYLONS: A Case Study in Poor Methodology ", by Ralph Woodrow, which appeared in volume 22, number 2 ( 2000 ) of the Christian Research Journal ( Article DC187 ), Two Babylons author Alexander Hislop was an exceptionally poor researcher who " picked, chose and mixed " portions of various unrelated myths from many different cultures.

The ethnic map of Celtiberia was highly localized however, composed of different tribes and nationes from the 3rd century centered upon fortified oppida and representing a wide ranging degree of local assimilation with the autochthonous cultures in a mixed Celtic and Iberian stock.

Samoans of mixed parentage, facing discrimination from both cultures but with the advantage of cross-cultural knowledge, also played a key role in the new movement.

Southern Burgenland is a region that mainly grows red grapes while the " Seewinkel " area around the Neusiedlersee has more mixed wine cultures.

Since mixed, there are numerous local ethnic festivities celebrating important points in different cultures — youth, harvest etc.

While the original crew of Ship, as described in Destination: Void, were cloned human beings from the planet Earth, by the time of The Jesus Incident, the crew has become a mixed bag of peoples from various cultures that have been accepted as crew members by Ship when it visited their planet as well as people who have been conceived and born on the ship.

For example, Thomas Pynchon includes in his novels elements from detective fiction, science fiction, and war fiction ; songs ; pop culture references ; well-known, obscure, and fictional history mixed together ; real contemporary and historical figures ( Mickey Rooney and Wernher von Braun for example ); a wide variety of well-known, obscure and fictional cultures and concepts.

* The Afroasiatic identity of Ongota is also broadly questioned, as is its position within Afroasiatic among those who accept it, due to the " mixed " appearance of the language and a paucity of research and data.

The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.

It is a popular snack sold in Mexico, sometimes mixed with chocolate or puffed rice, and its use has spread to Europe and parts of North America.

When LTR text is mixed with RTL in the same paragraph, each type of text is written in its own direction, which is known as bi-directional text.

Beaux believed that the public, initially of mixed opinion about the " new " art, would ultimately reject it and return its favor to the Pre-Impressionists.

It needs water to start its cycle and contains molecular structures typical of many kinds of rocks, mixed together.

When the upper layer cooled so its density was greater than the lower layer, the waters mixed ( 1978 – 79 ).

It may be mixed with other psychoactive agents, such as the San Pedro cactus in its traditional use in South America.

Although it received mixed reviews when it first came out, and was often condemned for its portrayal of amoral passion, the book subsequently became an English literary classic.

Across its history, the syllabic structure of Greek has varied little: Greek shows a mixed syllable structure, permitting complex syllabic onsets, but very restricted codas.

The Gothic novel shaped its form for female readers to “ turn to Gothic romances to find support for their own mixed feelings ”.

Although not reaching its 1970s peak in Westminster elections, the SNP had more success in the Scottish Parliamentary elections with their system of mixed member proportional representation.

Later half of its independent history, Finland has maintained a mixed economy.

The plan generated mixed results and opinion, largely succeeding in re-developing office building and parking infrastructure but failing to attract its anticipated retail and residential development.

While Maroger medium is usually mixed directly with oil paints, its proportion should be kept to no more than 20 % of the mixture.

Despite its mixed critical reception, Kid Icarus is a cult classic, and had shipped 1. 76 million copies by late 2003.

However, clomethiazole is specifically discouraged for unsupervised home detox because of its addictiveness, its tendency to rapidly induce drug tolerance, and its dangerously high risk of death when mixed with alcohol.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

The church had previously been criticized for its policy during the civil rights movement, but the change came in 1978 and was prompted primarily by problems facing mixed race converts in Brazil.

The government of the Marshall Islands operates under a mixed parliamentary-presidential system as set forth in its Constitution.

Mainframe return on investment ( ROI ), like any other computing platform, is dependent on its ability to scale, support mixed workloads, reduce labor costs, deliver uninterrupted service for critical business applications, and several other risk-adjusted cost factors.

The mixed state can put a patient at greater suicide risk-Feeling depressed on its own is a risk factor, but when coupled with increased energy, agitation, and impulsivity, the patient is more likely to engage in dangerous behavior, including self-injury or suicide.

The land around Maeshowe at its construction probably looked much as it does today-treeless with grasses representative of Pollen Assemblage Zone MNH-I reflecting " mixed agricultural practices, probably with a pastoral bias – there is a substantial amount of ribwort pollen, but also that of cereals.