Globalisation has also been hailed as a positive and creative force leadingto ‘creolisation’, which sits well with cultural diversity
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. This creolisation is theresult of the mixing of cultural traditions and the emergence of new practices andways of seeing the world. Such new cultures do not have the historical ancestryof so-called recognised cultures but have their own validity within the idea of diversity in a cultural context. Such creolisation may be seen by some asunauthentic and therefore a threat to cultural diversity but it is argued that al