Since the days of franz boas, anthropologists who study processes of cultural borrowing have emphasized that

The answer is; borrowing cultural forms or practices from elsewhere always involves borrowing with modification. That is, people never adopt blindly but always adapt what they borrow for local purposes. 

Put another way, people rarely accepted ideas or practices or objects from elsewhere without domesticating them.

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Geography affect the locations of economic activities by the following factors -transport government policies labour market