From a31aaaa8d4d45d91fa4ffe5c75dce87d6c0f2007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeroen Schweitzer Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:32:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs(docs): add bidirectional cultural mixing guideline to migration pressure doc Corridors are migration tendencies, not ethnic boundaries. Cross-corridor heritage at any hop distance is normal and expected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 --- docs/design/cultural-migration-pressure.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/design/cultural-migration-pressure.md b/docs/design/cultural-migration-pressure.md index be48e556b..db39e5b62 100644 --- a/docs/design/cultural-migration-pressure.md +++ b/docs/design/cultural-migration-pressure.md @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ The result is corridors, not blocks. A cultural corridor means the dominant cult Critically: not every system in a corridor needs a cultural identity at all. Systems can share any combination of culture, politics, and economics with their neighbours — or none. A democratic mining system next to a democratic Australian-heritage mining system: same politics, same economy, different cultural flavour. A Portuguese-heritage fishing world next to an unlabelled transit hub: different culture, different economy, but both Assembly-compliant. The axes are independent. A corridor might be 40-50% culturally inflected, 20-30% sharing politics or economics with neighbours but culturally generic, and the rest exceptions or mixed. All patterns track mixed, never exclusively. +Cultural mixing is bidirectional. A Chinese founding family on the Commonwealth (north) axis is normal — not an exception that needs special explanation. A Welsh mining cooperative in east_reach is normal. A Nigerian trading post in west_reach is normal. People followed economic opportunity, corporate contracts, and personal connections across all corridors regardless of the dominant cultural stream. The corridor identity describes which heritage is *most common* along a path, not which heritage is *allowed*. At inner hops (3-5) especially, where corporate and institutional settlement dominates, cross-corridor heritage is as common as corridor-dominant heritage. The corridor signal strengthens outward but never reaches monoculture. + --- ## Part 1: The Four Cultural Corridors