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Co-evolutionnary network approach to cultural dynamics controlled by intolerance (1110.1591v1)
Published 7 Oct 2011 in physics.soc-ph and cs.SI
Abstract: 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.