(1) Gypsies have tended to syncretize or blend their ethnic Gypsy folk religion with more established religions, such as Christianity.(2) In the US mainland, the Filipino Americans' immediate location, colonial discourses are syncretized into a culture that advocates their assimilation.(3) The older generations are more difficult to work with, often wanting to syncretise their old Buddhist beliefs with Christianity, and showing little change of lifestyle.(4) Like many scholars, Bettelheim is willing to accept the resourcefulness and creativity of Afro-Cubans and Afro-Brazilians in syncretizing Spiritism with Catholic and African spiritual systems.(5) Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka (he received the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature) addressed a lunch banquet, discussing the role of religion in the modern world and the syncretization of traditional gods with modern ones in his native Nigeria.(6) I think syncretization is a natural process that occurs in everyone who likes to ponder over things.(7) The modern syncretization is a fusion between Buddhism, hinduism (migratory tribes), and the native beliefs.(8) The result is a further syncretization of an already syncretic form, but one which is capable of having strong musical, political, and cultural resonances in Aotearoa.(9) The existence or recognition of ‘an endless play of abstract forms and patterns’ could be as much the result of a complicated process of syncretization as a formulaic, derivative practice.(10) Here Spielberg uses his passion and great gift to syncretise story elements that certainly don't clash on the screen and only seem dissonant in the abstract.
