Culture Diffusion Mcdonalds And Starbucks

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When a traveller crosses over into different divisions of the world, and see the same sites as in there home town it can lessen cultural differences. Around the world many different cultures are beginning to share their material and nonmaterial culture with each other. This is called culture diffusion. One example of culture diffusion is people in the united states play hockey which is also played in Canada. This is an example of culture diffusion which has a positive outcome. Another example of culture diffusion is the spread of AIDs or Smallpoxs which has a negative outcome. With the spread of McDonalds and Starbucks all over the world I believe it has a negative outcome. In the book it talks about how the rates of obesity doubled when the

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