Which of the following statements best summarizes the process of cultural sharing?
a. cultures change over time as groups pass their values to other groups and adopt practices practices of other groups.
b. culture is best defined as the values of a group of people, which do not change over time and are not shared with others.
c. cultures only change by force, when one group imposes its values and ideas on others.
d. cultural differences became indistinguishable by the beginning of the 21st

The answer is "a. Cultures change over time as groups pass their values to other groups and adopt practices practices of other groups."

I think the essential thing is that in that time if individuals considered cultural sharing by any stretch of the imagination, they likely didn't consider much it. I assume the customary way of thinking at the time, among the two Europeans and Indians was that alternate folks were savages and we shouldn't need anything to do with them. So there was a ton of contention and slaughter for a couple of hundreds of years. The relative peace between Rhode Island and neighboring Indian clans would appear to be a contention that cultural sharing is something to be thankful for.