Culture Combination

In my religion class we have been learning about the time while Alexander the Great reigned. As he created his empire, many changes occurred culturally. One important thing we have learned about was the merge of people, specifically amongst the Jewish people and those other surrounding Hellenistic peoples. The result was a very diverse group of people in this new empire. This created a great amount of change within the idea of the “Jewish Race” and those who could or could not be saved (or who were the chosen people).

Overall, this combined many types of people into the same empire, merging cultures. The change was drastic. When I imagine early America, I imagine a similar situation. With the rush of immigrants from all over the world, the culture must have diversified greatly. I imagine just as the Jewish people felt confused as to what the significance was of their genealogy, people of America must have also felt similar confusions as to who they were.  

I wonder if this type of cultural merge will ever be able to occur again. It seems as though we have reached the peak of this type of combination of cultures. I guess I might classify the internet as the most recent merge of the ideas from the world, but where can we go from there?