cultural diffusion
Cultural Diffusion The spread of ideas from one culture to another is referred to in human geographical studies as cultural diffusion. Diffusion occurs through the movement of people, goods, or ideas. The sharing of techniques, habitual practices, innovations, and daily lifestyles are all aspects that are brought about through cultural diffusion. ... by what anthropologists call cultural diffusion, from the center of creativity¡± (McNeill XV). ... Though diffusion various aspects of differing cultures are introduced to other distinct cultures, and then either accepted, assimilates into, extracted from, or disregarded. ... Cultural diffusion does not explain where the central point of knowledge comes from. ... Cultural diffusion is what shapes future cultures through the changes that it makes in past civilization.