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Modern Day Cultural Diffusion

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Modern Day Cultural Diffusion

People sharing culture around the world

🎯 Learning Goals

I Can Statement: I can explain how cultural diffusion happens in the modern world and its impact on societies.

Success Criteria:

✓ I can define cultural diffusion
✓ I can give examples of modern cultural diffusion
✓ I can compare old and new ways culture spreads
✓ I can find cultural diffusion in my community

📚 Part 1: Reading & Understanding

Cultural Diffusion means when ideas, food, music, language, and traditions spread from one place to another. Long ago, traders on the Silk Road carried spices, silk, and new ideas between Asia and Europe. Today, culture spreads much faster through the internet, TV, immigration, and global trade.

1. What does "cultural diffusion" mean?

When cultures disappear

When cultures spread from place to place

When cultures stay the same

2. How did culture spread long ago?

Through social media

Through traders like on the Silk Road

Through television

3. Check all the ways culture spreads today:

Internet and social media

People moving to new countries

Global trade

Television and movies

🔍 Part 2: Analysis

4. How is cultural diffusion different today than 500 years ago?
5. Give an example of something from another culture that you see in your daily life (food, music, clothes, etc.):
6. Fill in the blanks:

Long ago, culture spread slowly through _____________. Today, culture spreads quickly through the _____________ and social media.

7. Why do you think cultural diffusion happens faster now than in the past?

🎨 Part 3: Extension Activity

8. Think about your community in Fabens, TX. Describe or draw ONE example of cultural diffusion you see around you. This could be food, music, language, celebrations, or traditions that came from another place.

Write about your example:

Differentiation Support:

• EB Learners: Use pictures, native language, or work with a partner
• Special Ed: Focus on questions 1-3 and the drawing activity
• Advanced: Research how a specific cultural item (like tacos or pizza) spread around the world

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