At medium-size museums, cultural affinity was key, he added.

Small qualifies the relationship as 'lacking the sense of cultural affinity or common values that so often help to underpin friendships and alliances'.

Separated by distance and speaking different languages, at present, they generally have little cultural affinity to each other.

Home-grown banks came into play, competing against bigger banks with lower interest rates and a cultural affinity with their customers.

It covers populations that have a certain linguistic, biological and cultural affinity -- a certain ill-defined sameness, which shades off at its margins into difference.