Spread Of Culture Essay

Culture is a behavior, attitudes,and knowledge shared within a group. It is not limited to a state or nation. Any group can have their own culture. For example, Ipoly High School also has a culture. The culture includes many elements, such as food, shelter, religion, language, creative expressions, educations, and many more. Cultures also have been developing, changing, and spreading over time.

A group that share region, identity, and culture is called society. Language and religions are a few of the many things that society shares. Language allows people to communicate. It also gives people a sense of identity, which give you stronger nationalism. That identity can also separate/divide people even within the same region/nation. One other thing the society can share is the religion. Religion is as important as language, because it impacts heavily on one’s lifestyle. Religion is a belief in supernatural power, the creator/maintainers of the world. The religion is divided into three categories. First one is monotheism, the belief in one god. Examples of

monotheism would be Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Second one is polytheism, belief in many gods, and the last one is animistic, which is a traditional belief in nature. Some religions, like Hinduism are considered as both monotheism and polytheism. Some religions like Buddhism are considered neither monotheism nor polytheism. There are other things that society might share: performing art, visual art, and literature. Performing art includes music, dance, films, and etc. Visual art is architecture, textiles, paintings, and etc. Cultures were slowly developed over time and society might share the aspects of culture.

Then, how did the culture spread? Cultures can spread through diffusion. Diffusion is a spread of ideas, inventions, or other behaviors to another group. In modern days, it can happen through televisions or internet. It can happen rapidly or slowly. An example of rapid diffusion would be spread of K-POP. K-POP is a Korean music that is rapidly spreading throughout the world. This happened through the internet; it has been constantly popular with some teenagers for last five years or so. One example of slow diffusion would be paper. Paper was invented in China, but it slowly spread throughout the world. Language can also be spread through diffusion. For language, it may spread through trade routes or new routes. If the language spreads a lot, some regions might have blended languages, which allows people to easily speak more than one language. It can also spread through migration. As people migrate, they take their language with them. Then the language can be spread through words to the regions people migrated. Also, religions can spread. Some religions like Christianity or Buddhism actually try to persuade or 'convert' people into their own belief.

The spread of culture can slowly lead to changes of the culture.

When the old or existing factors make something new for need, it is called the innovation. For examples, baskets can be reformed to clay pots. Innovation may happen by accidents or on purpose. If the society or group gets affected and change by innovation, it is called an acculturation. Acculturation can happen in both positive and negative affect. Languages can also change. Today’s modern language is a changed form that comes from their language family. For example, Nostratic, which is an earlier language, have developed to Turkish. When the languages evolve, different versions of the language may come out. Different versions of language are called dialects. It shows changes in speeches that is closely related to social structures, geography, and many other. One of the examples of dialect would be the Boston accent in the United

States.

As the time passes, new technologies were developed and people also changed. As people changed, the culture developed, spread, and changed. They learned to spread their culture, make things better, and also enjoy the culture as it is. Our culture would also develop, spread, and change in the future. However, each culture was developed in a way that each of them is very unique, no matter how much it changed.