Cultural Diffusion Analysis

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Register to read the introduction… Over time, direct contact between the two leads to an intermingling of the cultures. Historically this occurred through trade, intermarriage, and sometimes warfare because members of the various cultures interacted with each other for long periods. An example today would be the similar interest in soccer in some areas of the United States and Mexico.
Forced diffusion or expansion diffusion is the second method of cultural diffusion and takes place when one culture defeats another and forces its beliefs and customs onto the conquered people. An example here would be when the Spanish took over lands in the Americas and later forced the original inhabitants to convert to Roman Catholicism in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Indirect diffusion type happens when cultural ideas are spread through a middleman or even another culture. An example here would be the popularity of Italian food throughout North America. Technology, mass media, and the internet are both playing a huge role in promoting this type of cultural diffusion around the world
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In reality shows women wear vulgar dresses.They try to show their body to the common people. Such as in MTV Roadies and splitsvilla girls wear small dresses which provoke the young generation. The young generation of our country like these reality shows very much. in Splitsvilla girls and boys go to dates and they hug each other. It looks very dirty and nacked. The Indian culture is not like our culture. Much intimacy scenes are shown In Splitsvilla which is vulgar. In many Hindi serials women marry twice even thrice. Is there anything to take from these Hindi serials. My question is that how a married women can marry thrice??? Is there any answer to Bangladeshi people. But yes a person can give answer to this question and she is none other than Ekta Kapoor the director of these vulgar serials. In Roadies and Splitsvilla boys and girls use many abusive words. They always use slang words which are creating a bad impact on Bangladeshi young generation. For example,A married women make love with many boys though she has a husband. Is it possible in our culture or society?? But yes it is possible in Hindi serials. Young generation are watching these serials and they are taking the negative sides of these serials which are fake not real. Small dresses, hot girls, fashion, style, marriage, live together and making illegal relationship of a married person these are the main features of Hindi serials. They do this to increase their …show more content…
There is so much to see, listen and enjoy. We need to divert ourselves and look at what we have in our country and be proud of it, before we start looking at what others have to offer. We must not complain about the lack of variety or quality of the things which are available in Bangladesh. If people think there is any lacking or deficiency in our products, they must try to enhance them or encourage others to change them. They must not give up and turn away and look for substitutes from other countries. Only this way shall we be able to free ourselves from the evil influence of foreign cultures. This will also help us to prosper and reach new

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