6.15A Cultural Diffusion in Latin America

Coca Cola, iPhone, blue jeans, rap, McDonald's, Takis, Cumbia

examples of cultural diffusion

culture is...

learned

Globalization

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.

people brought from Africa to the Americas

African Slaves

Columbian Exchange

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

Cultural diffusion

a process of transmitting or borrowing culture beliefs or traits from one culture to another

Items brought from the Americas to Europe

gold, silver, corn, potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate

Examples of cultural traits that are exchanged

ideas, information, religion, materials

Cultural diffusion in MODERN times

internet, trade (commerce), and travel (globalization)

Cultural diffusion in ANCIENT and MODERN times

invasions and conquests (ex: colonists taking lands away from Native Americans)

disease and conflict

negative effects of cultural diffusion

Cultural Exhange can happen

on purpose or NOT on purpose

Portuguese

Language spoken in Brazil that Portugal diffused throughout the region

Brazil

Located in South America, its the region where Portuguese is spoken the most in Latin America

cultural traits of Latin America have spread across the world to other cultures. True or False?

True

cultural diffusion can involve ideas in government, economics, education and science. True of False?

True. Culture does not only involve traditions an beliefs, but aso ideas.

new ideas, technology, foods

positive effects of cultural diffusion

diffusion

spreading / movement

Language and Religion

two long lasting examples of cultural diffusion that the Spanish left on Latin America

Items brought from Europe to the Americas

wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, and diseases