AP Human Geography / Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes
3.8 Effects of Diffusion
Notes
- Acculturation: adopting some traits of another culture while keeping your own.
- Assimilation: fully adopting the dominant culture.
- Syncretism: blending cultures to make something new.
- Multiculturalism.
Practice
Blending African religion with Catholicism (like Vodou) is:
New combined form.
An immigrant learns the new language but keeps home traditions. This is:
Partial adoption.
Losing one's original culture completely to the dominant one is:
Full absorption.
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