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An outgrowth of this argument is that the relative peace and stability which characterizes India in the face of this great diversity is a result of this personal acquaintance with diversity, and an understanding that the ascendence of one culture or cultural system need not signal an equivalent decline in some other culture or cultural system, since one individual can be, as it were, a host or carrier of more than one culture at a time.","A variety of evidence, presented in the form of accounts of interpersonal interactions and individual behavior, supports the central thesis of this dissertation, that individuals are capable of simultaneous cultural multiplicity, and that they can and in India that they do deal with societal complexity by using a process of cultural code switching. 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