Is there a way to combine (merge) the contents of two directories in Finder?

In Finder, under Favorites, I have two similar directories, one labeled Documents, and the other, with a house icon, labeled with my name. I think I imported the latter from my old Windows computer when I was a Mac neophyte. There are many duplicate subdirectories, and many duplicate files, but they are not exact duplicates. Is there an easy way to merge the two directories so that all my documents are in the Documents directory?

Your home folder (with the house icon) will have by default several subfolders, and "Documents" is one of them. The Home folder stores all files used by your user account, inclusing music, photos, movies, etc., the "Documents" folder will document like files, databases, text documents, ...
There is no problem to move all fies from your Home Folder to the "Documents" folder, but I would keep the standard folders "Downloads","Movies", "Pictures", "Music", "Public". These folders are the default locations, where applications will be looking for files by default, if no previous location has been set up.

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