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Creolization is a geographical concept which focuses on the inflow of commodities
Commodity

A commodity is anything for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative product differentiation across a market. It is a product that is the same no matter who produces it, such as petroleum, notebook paper, or milk....
 to a place (as opposed to the outflow ideas from the homogenization
Homogenization

Homogenization is a term used in many fields such as chemistry, mathematics, agricultural science, food technology, sociology and cell biology....
 concept)--it is the process of seeing how commodities are assigned meanings and uses in receiving cultures.

Baber and Waterman, 1995, believe that locals select elements of the receiving culture in order to construct their own hybrid medium.

Cultures become creolized as a consequence of the fusion of disparate elements which are both heterogeneous
Heterogeneous

Heterogeneous is an adjective used to describe an object or system consisting of multiple items having a large number of structural variations. It is the opposite of homogeneous, which means that an object or system consists of multiple identical items....
 and local.

Within linguistics, creolization refers to the process of creating a creole language
Creole language

A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable language that originates seemingly as a nativization pidgin. This understanding of creole genesis culminated in Robert A....
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Creolization is a geographical concept which focuses on the inflow of commodities
Commodity

A commodity is anything for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative product differentiation across a market. It is a product that is the same no matter who produces it, such as petroleum, notebook paper, or milk....
 to a place (as opposed to the outflow ideas from the homogenization
Homogenization

Homogenization is a term used in many fields such as chemistry, mathematics, agricultural science, food technology, sociology and cell biology....
 concept)--it is the process of seeing how commodities are assigned meanings and uses in receiving cultures.

Baber and Waterman, 1995, believe that locals select elements of the receiving culture in order to construct their own hybrid medium.

Cultures become creolized as a consequence of the fusion of disparate elements which are both heterogeneous
Heterogeneous

Heterogeneous is an adjective used to describe an object or system consisting of multiple items having a large number of structural variations. It is the opposite of homogeneous, which means that an object or system consists of multiple identical items....
 and local.

Within linguistics, creolization refers to the process of creating a creole language
Creole language

A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable language that originates seemingly as a nativization pidgin. This understanding of creole genesis culminated in Robert A....
.