Diffusion of a cuisine by migrants is an example of which diffusion type?

• A. Relocation diffusion
• B. Expansion diffusion
• C. Contagious diffusion
• D. Stimulus diffusion

Answer: (A)

Relocation diffusion is at work when the movement of people carries their cultural traits to new places. Migrants bring their cuisine with them—recipes, techniques, and flavors—so the cuisine appears in the destination because the people themselves have relocated. This differs from expansion diffusion, where an idea spreads outward while remaining rooted in its original place; from contagious diffusion, which spreads through direct contact within a population without necessarily involving moving people; and from stimulus diffusion, where an underlying idea influences another culture but isn’t adopted wholesale.