According to the lecture, causes cultures to blend and mutually influence each other. a. contact c. common language b. physical proximity d. color and race

The correct answer is option a. contact.

Explanation:

When two or more cultures interact with and influence each other, normally having a dominant culture that have greatest influence on the customs, beliefs and way of living for the other cultures we are talking about a process of assimilation or acculturation.

But this process does not denotes by common language, color and race, or by physical proximity, because culture blending is a process that affects more than anything the way of living, as customs, habits and traditions that people recognize as their own regardless the language they talk, color or race, and where they actually live. Nevertheless, speaking the same language, being part of the same race or having the same color of the skin, and living next to another are fosterers of culture blending. Nonetheless none of this elements are detonators themselves of acculturation, because people living in the same city could have totally different customs and habits, also speaking the same language does not determines that they are living the same way, neither having the same color or being of the same race.

Actually, immigrants are the main instance because some of them continue with the habits and traditions of their nations, even if they look physically similar to the people of the country they arrived, and even if they live and speak their language, suggesting that color and race, physical proximity and common language does not determines culture blending.

Moreover, contact, meaning that two or more cultures incorporate doings and ideas in their way of living, is the actual cause for culture blending because in contact there is an actual interaction among cultures that allow to incorporate and assimilate habits and customs, even if it is in a different language, they are not sharing lands and even if they do not belong to the same race.