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?
- 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?