1) put your first name, last initial, and class period
2) write what your favorite cultural trait in the USA is that diffused to the USA from somewhere else
3) tell where that trait came from, and when it came to the USA
4) explain why it is your favorite cultural trait that diffused to the USA from somewhere else
For example:
1) Mr. H, 1st hour
2) the name "America"
3) from Germany around 1507
4) We, in the USA, love to call ourselves "America." What's cool is that "America" actually refers to all of the Americas (North, South, Central), and is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who figured out that Columbus hadn't "discovered" Asia, but had bumped into some continents (the Americas) that Europeans did not know about. A German mapmaker (Martin Waldseemüller) was honoring Vespucci by naming these "new" lands "America" after Vespucci, instead of naming the lands after Columbus, who thought he was in Asia. If Columbus had figured things out better and spread the word more, we in the USA would probably be living in the USC, and we would be calling ourselves "Columbians" nowadays instead of "Americans"! Now, if that isn't cool, I don't know what is!!!
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