Three Types Of Cultural Diffusion

However after these Europeans arrived, disease and conquest struck the people and since the population decrease, it is very likely that some religious traditions are lost forever. These Europeans and other intruders did not invade easily. The current Native Americans at that time resisted heavily. These resistance movements “had influence far and wide”. Some of the religious traditions of Native Americans are shared among the tribes such as the Sun Dance and the belief that everything in the natural world is connected which further emphasizes why Native Americans find importance in relationships between humans and other elements of the natural world. Many Native Americans also have certain rites of passage they must complete before they can transition from childhood to adulthood. Native Americans also believe that if you do not complete the transition from childhood to adulthood, then you can be considered a child for all your life. However, with many similarities comes a vast number of differences. One major difference between the Native

Assimilation of the native Indians occurred in different phases. The United States in the early years adopted an Indian policy that they used to build good relations with the bordering tribes which helped politically and in trading with the natives. However, they reserved to stop the good relationships in order for them to acquire more land as the moved west to expand their territory. (Keller,1983)

With waves of the American population moving westward, government attempted to assimilate, or integrate, Native Americans into American society. Their goal was for Native Americans to live and behave like white Americans, and for them “to cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilized, and Christian community” (Doc 9). Children were sent to boarding schools where they were given new clothes and haircuts, and taught English, Christianity, and American ways of life (Doc 13). While many Americans believed this would be good for the Native Americans, it effectively destroyed their culture and identity. By forcing them to learn English, they were unable to communicate the concepts, beliefs, and ideas their languages were based on. Americans did not consider the fact that English could not substitute for Native languages, because they are based on different realities, histories, and cultures (Doc 3). Assimilation turned the lives of Native Americans upside-down, forcing them to give up ideas and beliefs they had been practicing their whole lives, without any say. Slowly, Native American culture and lifestyle faded until it was nearly

Cortney McMath Many ideas and practices that are applied here in the United States are a result of cultural diffusion from Mexico. Cultural diffusion is defined as “the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another.” In today’s times, people are more open and welcoming of other cultures, while they are still preserving their own in the process. Throughout, the cultural portfolio project, many connections and differences have been made between my lifestyle and values here in the United States with Mexico’s lifestyle.

One way that culture is developed in a society is through innovation. Innovation happens when someone invents, discovers, or combines something that could have an affect on a culture. Another way culture is developed is through diffusion. Diffusion is the process in which a piece of culture is transferred form on society to another.

A good example of this is how Viola and other Sudanese girls bring African braiding to America, where the tradition spreads, as the American girl then wants African braids. “She is ecstatic, this girl. / I sit on the edge of a chair, / and she sits between my knees. / My fingers touch the fine, pale hair / [. . .] Together, our fingers fly over the lady’s hair / and we make a pattern, beginning at her crown” (Farish 199). Immigrants from Europe have similarly brought traditions from their own ethnicities to America, where they've become part of American culture. For example, most “American” foods are based off of foods that came from other countries (hot dogs are based upon German sausages, pizza is originally from Italy, etc.), and even in our school systems, European origins still exist today (the entire concept of Kindergarten originated in Germany). America is a country that is based upon it’s mixture of different cultural traditions, mostly from Europe; both American history and The Good Braider can demonstrate that a big part of American culture comes from immigrants bringing their traditions with them to America, and those traditions being integrated into

Culture may have its sources in different aspects of human life, as: language, nationality, education, profession, group, religion, family, social class, corporate culture. All these elements influence every member of a society and thus, culture is learnt and transmitted to others.

For almost as long as European settlers have interacted with the native peoples of the Americas, they have had a notion: what many call ‘assimilation’. To Europeans, assimilation of native peoples meant for their culture, which they believed to be superior, to be accepted over time by the natives. And as they grew more and more European in language, religion, customs, organization, morals, and behavior, they would slowly shed off all of their old culture which the European culture would be replacing. The Europeans believed this process was for the best for the natives and that they would be happier living ‘civilized’ lives as opposed to practicing their own traditions.

Culture transmission theories or cultural theories are theories that try to explain why, at a macro-level, some environments are breeding grounds for criminal behavior. Also why these types of environments develop a culture that its participants consider this type of criminal behavior is acceptable and necessary (Feldmeyer, Cultural Transmission Theories, 2015).

This term is generally is generally associated with immigrants. That is there are few studies on acculturation of African Americans because their history is more related to slavery than immigration. However, it has been acculturation of African Americans from their African culture to the new world culture, America. Contrary to what one may think, acculturation is not unidirectional. Thus, the psychologist John W. Berry imagined an acculturation model with four categories: “assimilation (adopts the receiving culture and discards the heritage culture), separation (rejects the receiving culture and retains the heritage culture), integration (adopts the receiving culture and retains the heritage culture), and marginalization (rejects both the heritage and receiving cultures” (Schwartz, Unger, Zamboanga, & Szapocznik, 2010). African Americans seem to be in the integration category. Thus, African Americans rely mainly on conventional biomedicine, which has improved their health. However, some of them are still relying on traditional medical remedies because of socioeconomic and health disparities, including poverty, lack of heath insurance,

C) the process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.

Culture is the complex whole including customs, law, morals, belief, knowledge, arts and other abilities and habits that man acquires as a member of society. Culture occurs naturally in an individual's interactions in the society building his/her identity right from time of birth. Culture is acquired by people through interactions in the society ADDIN EN.CITE Lopes2006458(Lopes P., 2006)45845817Lopes P.,Culture and Stigma: Popular Culture and the Case of Comic BooksSociological ForumSociological Forum387-4142132006Springer08848971http://www.jstor.org/stable/4540949( HYPERLINK l "_ENREF_1" o "Lopes P., 2006 #458" Lopes P., 2006). Popular culture includes social life aspects engaged in the public sphere. The determination of a popular culture is possible through interactions between people's everyday activities. Popular culture is influenced in the modern day by mass media that portray different aspect of the society including dressing style, greetings, eating habits and slang among others ADDIN EN.CITE Williams J.M.2010460(Williams J.M. & Rodgers J.S.,

He drew a conclusion from his fieldwork in the American Northwest, deciding that diffusion and modification, the act or process of changing parts of something, explained many cultural phenomena. An example includes how Native American culture and religion was affected and altered over time by their location to other cultures and customs. Scholars of cultural diffusion created many different theories around this topic, how it originated, how the idea spread, and more. Heliocentric diffusion suggests that all cultures emerged from a single civilization.

Assimilation-The loss of a subaltern group’s native language and culture under pressure to assimilate to those of a dominant cultural group.

Fredrickson means that assimilationism tries to force one culture into accepting the “superiority, purity, and unchanging character of the dominant culture.” He gives an example of the “Native American cultural genocide” in regards to assimilationism. I agree, Assimilationism can force a culture to throw away part of its identity, values, and traditions.