CREOLIZATION

As a result of colonization there was a mixture between people of indigenous, African, and European descent, which came to be understood as Creolization. The mixing of people brought a cultural mixing which ultimately led to the formation of new identities.

It is important to emphasize that Creolization also is the mixing of the "old" and "traditional," with the "new" and "modern." Furthermore, creolization occurs when participants actively select cultural elements that may become part of or inherited culture. 

Robin Cohen states that Creolization is a condition in which "the formation of new identities and inherited culture evolve to become different from those they possessed in the original cultures," and then creatively merge these to create new varieties that supersede the prior forms.

The idea of ‘Creole continnum’ refers to a series of overlapping language usuages and code switching. Creolization stresses that although cultureal imperialism has taken place, it does not necessarily obliterate, pre-existing cultural froms. The ideologiacal competition between them can result in a range of hybrid forms of identity as well as the production of traditional / nationalist identities.

There are different processes of creolization have shaped and reshaped the different forms of one culture. For example, food, music, and religion have been impacted by the creolization of today's world.