convergence and divergence

What is cultural convergence?

• the theory that two cultures will be more and more alike as interactions increase

• the theory that two cultures will be more different as interactions increase

• the phenomena that cultures have the same behaviors and customs

• the phenomena that cultures have unique dimensions

What makes cultural convergence possible?

• seeing other cultures in movies

• reading about another culture at school

• communication with other cultures

• being in America

Cultural diffusion is best described as...

• sharing music from one culture to another
• Cultural margarine
• the spreading of religion
• the spreading of ideas, languages, and traditions from one culture to another

Which of the following is NOT a part of culture?

• History
• Weather
• Language
• Food

Colombian Exchange: Which was a direct result of the initial contact between European cultures and Native American cultures in the 1490s?

• Most Spaniards migrated to the New World.

• Spanish settlers rejected Christianity for Native American religious beliefs.

• New diseases arrived in the Americas from which natives lacked immunity.

• Native Americans used Spanish settlers as a source of cheap labor.

Which example illustrates cultural convergence?

• People in many countries now enjoy eating American "fast food" and listening to American "pop" music.

• In 1991, the Soviet Union divided into separate countries.

• When the colony of India achieved independence in 1947, it formed the new countries of India and Pakistan.

• After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union became rivals in the Cold War.

The tendency for culture groups to separate from others in order to protect or preserve their culture from influence or change

• Cultural Convergence

• Cultural Divergence

• Cultural Diffusion

• Cultural Interaction

The interaction of cultures as they come in contact with each other and accept aspects of culture from both groups; merging of cultural characteristics (sometimes with a loss of one culture's norms)

• Cultural Convergence

• Cultural Divergence

• Cultural Diffusion

• Cultural Interaction

Voodoo is a religion in the Americas and the Caribbean thought to be a combination of various African, Catholic and Native American traditions.

• Cultural Divergence

• Cultural Convergence

Approximately 1.5 billion people speak the English language to some extent.

• Cultural Divergence

• Cultural Convergence