Cuiltural diffusion between Africa and Japan
Most cultures, if not all, are influenced by other cultures and civilizations through cultural diffusion. In the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy the Khoisan people's culture is infiltrated by modern influence. Similarly, the Japanese culture, during the Heian period, was greatly influenced by China. Although both the Khoisan people and the Japanese initially accepted the new cultural influence, in the end, the Khoisan people rejected the modern influence completely, while the Japanese modified Chinese influence to be part of their own unique culture. The enthusiasm the cultural influence caused the Japanese and the Khoisan people was great and instigated both to primarily accept the new cultural influence. When the Coca Cola bottle descended from the sky towards the Khoisan people, they believed the gods had sent it to them and used the modern influence as much as they could. With the same amount of fascination, the Japanese welcomed Chinese influence
The Japanese, however, went about disposing Chinese influence differently because they did not truly get rid of the Chinese influence. The Japanese keep the Chinese influence while the Khoisan people discard the modern influence completely. The Japanese, on the other hand, decided to rid themselves of Chinese influence because the Tang Dynasty's power had declined and so the Japanese turned away from its model and spent the next four hundred years digesting and adapting the Chinese ways of life to their own. The Japanese and Khoisan people associate strongly because both cultures were adequate ways of life but their eagerness to accept new cultures caused these two cultures to acknowledge cultural influence when they truly did not need it. In time the Khoisan people and the Japanese lose interest in the influences that they were once so enthusiastic about, but both cultures went about discarding the influence differently. The Japanese began to change their way of life to make it more like the Chinese way of life, altering customs which did not need alterations just so they could compare closely to the Chinese. The reason the Khoisan people and the Japanese began to look away from their influences were also quite different. The two cultures ,however, differ in their eventual decision. The Khoisan people sent one of their men to send the Coca Cola bottle, which caused the modern influence, to the ends of the Earth so that they could terminate any more influence from the Coca Cola bottle, which had caused them so much grief. by trading with China and sending mission groups to study the Chinese way of life and bringing back the information to Japan. In conclusion the Khoisan people and the Japanese reacted in the same way towards the outside influence, by welcoming it with open arms. The Japanese incorporated the Chinese way of life by using selective borrowing, they borrowed some things and either rejected or modified other ways, so that they could create their own distinctive culture. The Japanese and the Khoisan people see influence in the same way, originally, they both believe that it is good, but by the end, only the Japanese still seek influence while the Khoisan people rid themselves of the modern influence because they believe it to be evil. The Khoisan people began using the Coca Cola bottle in any way possible, jobs they could do fine without the object soon became unachievable without the object.
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