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Cultural Diffusion
- Cultural Diffusion is the exchange of ideas
from one culture to the next.
- On the Regents Exam Cultural Diffusion is
usually applied to religion.
- For example Buddhism was founded in India,
but spread into other parts of Asia along trade routes.
- A modern example of Cultural Diffusion might
be Tiger Woods.
- He is the product of an American father who
went to war in Vietnam and ended up marrying a woman from Thailand (which
is next to Vietnam).
- They had a son (Tiger) who is half African-American
and half Thai.
Sample Regents Question:
Which term is used to describe the spread of Buddhism from India through
Southeast Asia?
1) ethnocentrism 3) imperialism
2) isolation
4) cultural diffusion
Answer: #4
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