How did people in the New World empires, like the Yoruba, protect their sense of cultural identity?

so the story tells of someone named kaushik choudhuri, but he does not narrate the story, a girl named hema does. hema tells the story in a second person point of view because you (the reader) are supposed to be the boy named kaushik.

here's an excerpt i found: "i was ushered into the fitting room, your mother watching approvingly as i took off my coat and sweater and tried on the bra."

source:

profound political, administrative, and social changes in the british isles.

the answer i chose to believe is 'harmony'