Many original settlers in this area came from European regions where pottery making was an integral part of life, and over the years they assimilated influences from American Indians and Africans who lived here.
What's intriguing is how well-incorporated it is; it's one of Radiohead's USPs that they are able to assimilate influences from dance music's outer limits without ever sounding like they're trying too hard.
Synthesising the kind of conceptualism-lite, post-pop appropriation and visual gags that many students (and not just at Goldsmiths) were working through at the time, Hirst was also assimilating his influences.
Demographic factors (such as age, gender) are identified as those directly influencing how an individual will assimilate various influences.
In culture as in politics, Taisho thinkers, artists and political activists assimilated Western influences.
They also charted the course of his literary apprenticeship as he assimilated the influences of such disparate artists as T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford and Samuel Beckett.
In their respective displays of confusingly diverse works Mr. Shearer, who lives in Vancouver, and Mr. Guzmán, of Mexico City, resemble promising but unfocused grad students who have yet to assimilate their influences fully.
By the early fifties, he had assimilated his influences (Cocteau, Anouilh, Hitchcock, classical theatre), and his films took an introspective turn: they moved from posing social problems to analyzing personal ones.
In his music, Elliot Goldenthal, your chief collaborator and partner, also assimilates many influences into his own style, especially in your joint project "Juan Darien" -- Tibetan temple gongs, Mayan flutes, liturgical music, all crossed with American jazz.
A similar cosmopolitanism informs the movie itself, which turns Camus's romantic ethnology inside out, presenting a nation proudly aware of its cultural achievements and thus able to welcome and assimilate outside influences.
