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Back then, culture was spread through trade. Nowadays culture is spread through social media, the news, and education.

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Culture is typically passed down through generations of families. Culture consists of religions, food, traditions, etc. all of which are are usually taught at a young age. If it is not passed on through families, than it can be passed down through communities in efforts to preserve their culture.

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Culture is the customs, habits, or lifestyles of a certain group or race of people. It is defined by the people in said group or race.

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Culture can be passed on to others in many different ways such as language, books, and celebrations. For language, people at school come from different countries around the world which opens up to new relationships to get to know their background. Books help connect to heritages and cultures from long ago to find out more about the history and traditions you might want to consider celebrating. Celebrations have big festivals for people to have an opportunity to learn more about their cultures beliefs, clothing, and food.

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In the past culture was passed on through trade and travel to different parts of the world.

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The ottomans had the biggest impact on both world history and global trade. They were one of the largest empires having in it's power the Balkan peninsula, Anatolian, part of Arabian peninsula, and northern Asia. Because of their great location they controlled trade routes between the European and Asia, such as the silk road. Since everything from the silk road was given to the ottomans, they taxed Europeans for the goods. The Europeans then started to look for new trade routes by sea to get to Asia. The ottomans also showed how colonizing was a success which also led to the Europeans wanting to search and colonize. Because of them the europeans then started to search new places which then led to the age of exploration, and the discovery of the Americas.

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As a society instead of judging or making assumptions of another culture we should try to learn about them and their different customs, beliefs, and traditions. We should be open minded and know that we all are different.

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Culture comes through mainly family heritage and generations passed on through different ancestors. Depending on where your original ancestors originated from you usually stick to that culture. Then you pass it onto your younger siblings/children and it is just an ongoing cycle.

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We can pass our culture on to other people through many different ways such as having someone try a certain cultures type of food or maybe introducing a new tradition to someone who is open to the ideas. Culture can also be passed on through family heritage and influenced between family members.

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Cultural diffusion allows people to share and trade different resources that you may not be able to acquire in the land you are living in, and because of the spread of resources with different cultures it allows development of new ideas, new inventions, new jobs, and even new religion.

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Culture is usually something, that gets passed through family generations or ancestors. It consists of foods, religions, languages, dances, etc,  and most of the time is something you grow with, meaning you are raised following the culture or the belief.

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Cultural diffusion leads to cultural change by spreading and integrating other cultures into one, influencing the way that one culture does things. Whether that is clothes, food, or music. You can have a mash up of two cultures and they have both changed. Cultural diffusion leads to cultural change since one cultural may do things differently and that could improve another culture so they adopt that style of life.

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Cultural diffusion can lead to change in cultures as a whole, for example when the Europeans brought over their culture (their religion) to China. It likely changed China substantially because traditions and lifestyles of changed along with a shift in religion.

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Mostly schools, churches, and the government are responsible for protecting culture. Schools teach you about different cultures, it's usually sugarcoated and not in depth but they give us the gist of it. Churches spread religion that rooted from European, Indian, and African cultures and if those religions are still being taught today, then the culture is still being spread and protected. The government has discrimination laws that stop people from ostracizing others because of their culture, religion, or skin color. In my opinion thats defending the culture and differences between people.

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Technology plays a big role in sharing and displaying people's lives and daily activities. As social media grows and expands we are seeing cultures and the people within them share their practices and beliefs.

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Culture is the beliefs, religion, language, music, arts, and other characteristics shared by groups of people.

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Some benefits of cultural diffusion is gaining knowledge of ones culture, gaining new technologies/ inventions and learning new languages. Some disadvantages of Cultural diffusion is gaining new diseases and having certain conflicts such as war.

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culture gets passed to others by generations and trading in different area around the world and being introduced into someone culture.

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We pass on our culture by talking to others about the cultures we practice.

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Cultural Diffusion leads to change because people tell others of their culture, which could lead to the other person practicing it.

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Culture is things that make each race unique. By food, clothing, languages, and traditions.

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The most successful at diffusing their culture was probably the Ottomans. The Ottomans surrounded the Med Sea which allowed for great trade. Through trading, many cultures spread ideologies, religions, and culture. The least successful would have been China. Instead of opening themselves to trade, they closed the country from outsiders and regulated trade heavily. Due to that they missed out on the age of exploration, and didn't diffuse their culture at all.

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I believe that it is best to protect your own culture, but also to be tolerant of others. You don't necessarily have to embrace someone else's culture, especially if you believe in your own. I come from Caribbean roots on both sides of my family, and I love my culture. Sure, I love to learn about others cultures, and I try my best to be absolutely accepting of all cultures, but I would never readily give up my own to embrace another.

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culture gets passed on from parents to their children or from people talking about it or seeing it online.

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Well it is definitely easier to learn about different cultures due to the internet. Rather than reading pages and pages of a textbook you can simply just search it up on the internet. A lot of people also feel the need to post what their culture is very frequently so you can feel sort of a taste on what that culture is.

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Culture is someone's or a groups way of living which can be something as simple as the type of music they like or the type of diet they have. culture to me defines the people that  are a part of a certain culture.

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Ethnocentrism is saying that one culture is correct and should not be changed, which would mean the culture would block out any potential influences and speak out against another culture. In other words ethnocentrism is an ignorant, narcissistic act. Ethnocentrism would "halt" cultural diffusion by constantly avoiding and turning a blind eye to any other culture making it impossible to be influenced which means that one culture can not change. Hence no cultural diffusion will take place if ethnocentrism is being used.

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culture is defined by how people live and where they are located and what experiences they have had

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technology makes it easier for other people to hear about the culture and see what they do.

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What Culture means is the Characteristics and Knowledge of a group and also language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.

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Culture can be passed down by reading books because book connect children with their language, heritage, culture and traditions.

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Ethnocentrism would cause conflict between the cultures because, one would think the things they do in their culture is better then the other's culture.

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How our cultural leads to cultural change is that culture diffusion is spread of ideas, beliefs and goods from one to another.

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Lots of Eastern Empires were influenced by European religion. Europe became known for their wide expansion into asian empires and how they spread christianity to many territories. One empire that refused Europe's expansion was Japan because they had their own practices and beliefs that they did not want disturbed.

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An advantage of culture diffusion is that individual are able to learn ideas outside of their culture and the disadvantages of cultural diffusion can include the loss of a person own culture.

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Culture spreads by interacting with someone and talking about the culture to spread the news about it through trade routes.

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Culture might impact people if it remained isolated in the Digital Age because it prevents the spread of new ideas. New languages, traditions, and celebrations wouldn’t develop and everyone would learn the same thing. Also, society would be less diverse. We can be more creative and spread culture and ideas if we weren’t isolated, so we can express culture in many ways.

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Some benefits of cultural diffusion  is because it allows for cultures to learn from other empires or cultures to benefit them in a certain aspect in life they needed help with or struggled with.

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The culture would be impacted in many ways. First there would be limited resources especially for Japan because its an island, There would be very little innovation and very little new technology or new ideas, Also most likely a shortage in jobs for the people and housing. But I do believe we would get creative and figure out ways around these issues.

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Culture is the beliefs, behaviors and other characteristics shared by groups of people.

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Culture is the traditions, beliefs, and customs that have been passed down through generations of a group of people. The people of a nation or any type of group define the culture of their own specific group.

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We can pass on our culture by teaching others about it. Also spreading our cultures to the younger generations.

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Culture is the knowledge, experience, beliefs and more characteristics, and it could be defined by anyone .

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European interactions changed mostly the religion of the Eastern Empires. Through trading with merchants from each empire, they talked about religion and other things which eventually caused Islam and Christianity to spread into the East. Some of the Eastern Empires felt like they were losing their culture to the Europeans, while others accepted European culture but still kept their own culture.

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A benefit about culture diffusion is that someone can learn about other ideas outside of their own culture. A disadvantage could be that a person forgets about their own culture.

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isolation has a lot of negative factors such as a decrease in mental health as well as a blockage for new ideas, groups, and future plans from progressing. This would also force us to spend more time online and other platforms , and overtime this can have a huge negative effect on peoples health , mentally and physically.

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I believe that protecting your own culture is better, however, sometimes people will not feel comfortable with their cultures and it might be better to embrace a new one. This doesn´t mean you have to give up your culture it just means that if you feel like you don´t belong in that culture there are different options you can embrace, but I think that the main thing you should do is to protect your culture and once you are comfortable with your beliefs you can embrace a different one if you would like.

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Technology today makes it easier for all kinds of people to learn about a religion through social media, and the news.

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Benefits of cultural diffusion could be many different things, someone could be looking to expand on their own cultural preferences or maybe just see what other options may be out there. A disadvantage could be the loss of someone's own cultural identity.

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It leads to cultural change because cultural diffusion is the spread of Beliefs and activities to other cultures.

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To fight back against ethnocentrism we should be as open minded as possible, and understand that all cultures have to come and start from somewhere. You should try and forget about your own cultures and customs that are known only by you, if you want to properly and effectively learn about the cultures of others.

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I think that a large flaw in cultural diffusion is that different regions of the world could just stop having traditions unique to them. If a lot of cultures influenced and clashed with each other they would all be similar with nothing unique.

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Technology is just a world of information about anything. so learning and viewing other cultures is easier now than having to Read a book or physically having to met people from other countries with different cultures and upon language barriers.

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I feel like the most successful diffusing their culture is the ottomans because they include very strong and organized military and its centralized political structure.The empire that was unsuccessful is Gupta cause its unable to exert its power and influence beyond a limited territory.

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Technology impacted cultural diffusion positively by making it much more easy to spread religions and beliefs through technology easily.

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I feel likes its better to embrace other cultures because through travels allows you to experience what its like being a part of a community other than yours.

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Culture is the knowledge of the group like language , religion ,arts and music

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Technology made it much easier for cultural in many ways like how they communicate , technology take in aspects on culture the art and government

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Culture is not just defined  by one person or one group. Its multiple groups and people living in different places around the world with different beliefs, languages ,  and life styles. People learn from each other and come up new ideas.

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Ethnocentrism is basically when you say to their culture is wrong and the value of your culture isn't worth anything. And by doing this it can cause a lot of hatred between the two parties that are arguing. And if you are arguing with another empire you are obviously no going to share your cargo.

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Schools teaches different Religion, Also how people lived in the past. The government enforces laws to keep people from fighting on cultural beliefs. Churches just teach us about one religion. All of these institutions are protecting culture by not having other people make fun of other cultures, by teaching and spreading cultures to other people so they don't die out. Also churches teach us to be better humans, and to keep traditions going.