Culture Assimilation, diffusion and Innovation

A "blueprint for living"

• Diffusion

• Innovation

• Invention

• Culture

Your iphone is an example of

• Invention

• Innovation

• Intuition

• Cultural hearth

blending two languages to create cultural

• Hearth

• Innovation

• Diffusion

• Simulation

The spread of McDonald’s into countries like India and Russia is an example of

• ethnocentrism.
• diffusion.
• a static culture.
• assimilation.

Islam spread from its origin on the Arabian Peninsula to North Africa, and then into West Africa.  The Arabian Peninsula is an example of

• acculturation.
• a cultural trait.
• diffusion.
• a cultural hearth.

As Americans, we enjoy many different kinds of food.  Eating these foods demonstrates the process of

• diffusion.
  
• innovation.
  
• assimilation.
• acculturation.
  

Taking existing elements of society and creating something new to meet a need is called

• assimilation.
• innovation.
• diffusion.
  
• acculturation.
  

The process whereby a minority group gradually gives up its own culture and adopts the culture of the majority is known as

• assimilation.
• innovation.
  
• diffusion.
• acculturation.
  

This map is an example of

• culture traits
  
• cultural diffusion
• acculturation
• assimilation

This photo is an example of all of the following EXCEPT:

• globalization
• acculturation
• static culture
• dynamic culture