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Diffusion

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Diffusion is the spread of cultural elements from one culture into another through contact, trade, migration, conquest, or media.

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A dish, a loanword, and a musical form each travel the same trade route, and each arrives altered by the journey.

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What diffuses is reinterpreted on arrival; it rarely lands unchanged.