The county fair brings everyone together to share a good time. Downtown stores Kennywood's beginnings as a trolley park Mexican War Streets Community Gardens Rochester-Monaca Bridge naming rivalry Rick Sebak Ambridge High School color guard. Parades, uniforms, sports teams, and rituals all contribute to building a sense of belonging to a community. Together all of these shared memories, experiences, language, and values bind people together in a culture. A folk tradition, whether a song, a food, a folk tale, may travel across continents being continuously modified and adapted to new surroundings, languages, religions, and culture.
Diffusion is when traditions move across boundaries.
The resulting process of adjustment, adaptation, compromise, and assimilation is called Acculturation . Greek-run diners are another example of acculturation. Sometimes issues of ethnicity or diversity threaten some residents, who react in a way that emphasizes difference instead of reinforcing similarity. Sometimes dissension is economic. The unfortunate result of this prejudice is discrimination or less obvious social injustice.