I call these codes the deep culture of a society. The deep culture lies at the foundation of a society. Sitting immediately upon that deep culture is a wide social system including economic relations, health care, families, shelter and clothing practices, food and eating customs, education forms and environmental attitudes. A political system develops upon and protects the social system and a military system upon that, protecting, of course, the political system. Such contacts can result in very little change or it can result in a total upheaval of the society.
Many factors play a role in the effects of such contacts.
One of the factors is the place in which contact and change comes about. Contacts can be made at any one or at a combination of places in that societal framework. These contacts may affect changes in that level of the framework for a period of time, but unless they make fundamental change in the people at the deep culture level, the society will find a continual pull toward those systems which express the existing deep-culture of the place. On-going contact with Europeans came about in 1778 by the visits of Captain James Cook of the British admiralty. Those initial contacts were largely based upon trade.