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Based on today's reading, what is Transculturation? Give examples you’ve seen in your own gaming experience. Remember-- at least 500 words, so your account might require a great deal of detail.
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Running head: TRANSCULTURATION
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Transculturation
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Fernando Ortiz, the 20th Century sociologist, and ethnologist came up with the term
transculturation in order to describe the process of integration that cultures go through when they
encounter each other so that the elements of each transfer to the other resulting into a new culture
(Gonzalez, 2014). It is different from the term acculturation which refers to the switch of an
individual or group of people from one culture into another. Transculturation can be seen in
today’s video games which can be attributed to a concept referred to as contact zones which are
social spaces where cultures meet, and exchange of elements take place. According to Tabatabai
(2013), technological d...