Coevolutionary network approach to cultural dynamics controlled by intolerance.
Starting from Axelrod's model of cultural dissemination, we introduce a rewiring probability, enabling agents to cut the links with their unfriendly neighbors if their cultural similarity is below a tolerance parameter. For low values of tolerance, rewiring promotes the convergence to a frozen monocultural state. However, intermediate tolerance values prevent rewiring once the network is fragmented, resulting in a multicultural society even for values of initial cultural diversity in which the original Axelrod model reaches globalization.
Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, BIFI, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza E-50018, Spain.
Carlos
C
Gracia-Lázaro
Fernando
F
Quijandría
Laura
L
Hernández
Luis Mario
LM
Floría
Yamir
Y
Moreno
D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012944:Social Support