Their far-flung projects are agents of cross-cultural fertilization.
ROHTER Sometimes this cross-cultural fertilization is subterranean; we're not necessarily aware of it.
This is evident at once in the starters, which represent cross-cultural fertilization of the best sort.
For the self-employed, artists and other creative-thinking, curious types moving around the world seeking inspiration and cross-cultural fertilization, it's rarely an option.
"Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800," onening on Monday, is a staggering overview of more than three centuries of art, commerce, craft and cross-cultural fertilization.
Throughout the show, though, the theme of cross-cultural fertilization recurs: we see ninth-century Chinese silk patterns influenced by Persian designs, and a stone pillar erected in Xian in 781 displaying both Chinese characters and Christian iconography.
These people haven't had the advantage of cross-cultural fertilization that our civilizations have had.
Despite all of his family's and neighbors' strengths and the cross-cultural fertilization that he experienced, when his family migrated to California, his mom's first words were testimony to the segregation that also pervaded American life.
This experience produced a theory of cultural cross-fertilization (acculturation) and culture change.
And his knack for cultural cross-fertilization is winning him champions among American and European critics.
In September, she launched the Design Consulate, a branch of Contrasts in Shanghai, which shows work by designers who share her keen interest in cultural cross-fertilization.
