Chapter 4, Section 1

1. The factors that define a culture are its language, religion, daily life, history, art, government, and economy.

2. Migration and the information revolution affected interactions between cultures in recent years. Migration because it allowed cultural diffusion to give way in large amounts and the information revolution because it allowed people to connect in a several new ways.

Creative Writing: If I lived in a world that had not gone through the information revolution, I would wake up with the sound of a normal clock ringing and would have gotten out of bed. I would then eaten some regular bread with some jam, packed a lunch, gotten in the shower, and gotten ready for school as cosmetically, not wearing contacts because computers would not have been able to find the curvature of my eyes. I would have then gone to Edison where I would be taught by teachers that used untechnologically advanced equipment, such as chalk boards and physical files that were not on a computer to input grades and do other tasks like that. I would go home on my bike, get ready to run, and go back to school for cross country where I would run across streets whose traffic was directed by someone who needed community service or a police officer. I would get back home from the practice afterward and do some homework that I would get out my binders only because I could not print them out, then eat dinner, then do more homework, and finally get ready for bed and fall asleep around nine o'clock.