Cultural Syncretism and its Impact

GP ASSIGNMENT:

·          Compare and contrast the legacies of cultural syncretism in Africa and the Americas with the resistance to cultural change Westerners encountered in China and India.

·          What cultural factors caused the differences in outcomes? Maria Torres

·          What legacies have the differences in types of encounters and degrees of cultural change left today?

·         Had syncretism not occurred in the Americas, how might modern culture be different? If cultural syncretism had taken root during early encounters in China or India, how might they be different today?