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Exploring Cultural Diffusion: A Journey Through Shared Traditions

Learn about cultural diffusion, the process of sharing cultural traits. Discover how food, sports like baseball, and ideas like fortune cookies have diffused across societies. Dive into the exchange of cultures and complete a research assignment exploring diffused elements.

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Exploring Cultural Diffusion: A Journey Through Shared Traditions

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  1. CULTURAL DIFFUSION

  2. DEFINITION: • Cultural Diffusion: the spreading of a cultural trait (material object, idea, or behavior pattern) from one society to another • Diffusion can also be viewed as a cultural ‘exchange’

  3. Elements of Culture that have been ‘diffused’ into our current culture: • Foods: Chinese, Mexican, Indian • How many have eaten a fortune cookie?

  4. Elements of Culture that have been diffused into other cultures: • Baseball • Baseball was developed into the game it is now in the US in the late 18th century. • What is the common saying here in the US? “As American as ___________ “

  5. APPLE PIE!

  6. Other examples of cultural diffusion:

  7. Assignment: • You and a partner are required to find and research two different things on the internet that have been culturally diffused either into our culture, or from our culture into another’s culture. • Fill in the worksheet with the information you find.

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