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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
part has to do with its experience in taking over strange traits.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Some culures seem to be particularly able to to ah take on new things.
I mean modern Japanese culture is a good example of that.
They, they will, they're in a frame of mind, let us say, for borrowing.

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
But it isn't a matter of contact being very, it isn't only a matter of contact
being very intense or continuing over a long period of time. It can be that a
very brief but very appropriate contact

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
could then be taken up very quickly and incorporated into indigenous [[Cross Talk]]

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
But both are important. I mean, I think the intensity of contact is very important.
I mean, no matter what the culture is, if it's intensely influenced by another culture,
by a superior culture, let's say,

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
a somewhat more advanced culture, it will take over a good portion of that culture.
But even, or, the intensity is balanced with a reluctance or ability to take on
new things.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
So it's extraordinarily complex series of factors involved in how diffusion
occurs, or how quickly it occurs, or ah--

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
So there's a kind of diffusionist capability in something which is part of a culture,
which has nothing to do with what the culture looks like?

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Yeah, there's a tremendous, I mean, I think it's the, one of the important factors in the growth
of any culture. I mean, everyone borrows, whether it's from a next-door neighbor or from a culture a

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
hundred miles away. But I think when we can get into more advanced civilizations, its ah contacts were much
more widespread and therefore a civilization would take on things from long-distance [[contacts]]

Transcription Notes:
Last section should be "everyone borrows" and "more advanced civilizations."