Identify the inference drawn from the passage.

Concept

An inference is a conclusion supported by the combined ideas of a passage, even when it is not repeated word for word.

A sound inference must fit the passage as a whole and must avoid absolute claims that the passage contradicts.

Application

1. The passage says that globalisation creates hybrid formations rather than homogenising cultures.

2. It explains that local identities are reconstituted through appropriation, resistance, and reinvention.

3. It finally defines culture as an assemblage that is fluid, contingent, and relational.

Contrast

• Global flows create uniformity: the passage describes hybrid formations, not a single uniform outcome.

• Technology destroys cultural agency: communities are shown actively adapting technology through local agency.

• Assemblage theory rejects power relations: the passage links this perspective with critiques that foreground power and discourse.

• Culture cannot be conceptualised as fixed or static: this follows from the repeated description of culture as fluid and continually reconstituted.

Result

The supported inference is that culture cannot be conceptualised as fixed or static.