Open-ended negotiation across cultural and political divides can lead to cosmopolitan cultural practices but also to polarization, and tends to be full of conflict and contradiction. anthropologist anna lowenhaupt tsing refers to this phenomenon as

This is called friction. This is because the polarization that occurs tends to be a result of these new cultural practices not being as acceptable to those of a more conservative bent, and leads to conflict among the old guard and those of the newer, more urbane mindsets.