
embodied every single aspect of the stereotypical culture, but rather indi-
viduals adopted particular aspects of the cultural features prevalent in
their area.
These results have an obvious analogue in human society. A string in
the simulation may be seen as a set of features, attitudes, or beliefs held
by an individual, which must be internally consistent in order to become
stable. The features are also constrained to be externally consistent; that
is, individuals strive to resemble their neighbors, at least when the neigh-
bors are relatively successful at attaining a “good” set of features.
These experiments have taken Axelrod’s model of the spread ...