At the beginning of the 21st century, Thailand and Myanmar each had about 5,000 captive elephants employed in traditional roles intermingled with modern use as tourist attractions.
Although limits were placed on the ordination of Native Americans and much evangelization appeared to be an integral part of military conquest, the indigenous and mestizo populations of Mexico and South America, who intermingled traditional and Christian beliefs, thought of themselves as Roman Catholics.
Psychedelic, prog and mystical elements intermingled with traditional rock ones (Elton John's Benny and the Jets was sampled; John Mayer featured).
Predictably, many places specialize in Scandinavian minimalism, but in a way that reflects the aesthetic of this eclectic area, where the design-minded shops intermingle with traditional Swedish bakeries, Turkish food markets, antiques stores and clothing boutiques from up-and-coming designers.
But as Frank Dikötter of the University of Hong Kong argued in his brilliant 1992 book The Discourse of Race in Modern China, traditional notions about culturally inferior "barbarians" intermingled with Western forms of scientific racism to form a distinctively Chinese racial consciousness in the 20th century.
These traditions have largely broken down among the urban educated classes, where traditional and Western courtship styles have demonstrated the ability to intermingle.
"A Fine Romance" by David Lehman Schocken Bookss, 2009) is an appreciative, scholarly study of traditional popular song that goes into considerable and enlightening detail about the intermingling of black and Jewish popular music, primarily from the first half of the 20th century.
The old city brought the traditional together with the modern, the foreign with the domestic and the "beautiful with ugly" – an intermingling originally forged by "the institutions of Islam and the Ottoman empire".
The traditional dish is made kind of like risotto and includes an array of meat, seafood, and veggies that intermingle in a fluffy bed of saffron-spiced, slow-simmered rice.
There is some intermingling between nationalities, too.
