Cultural inventions are things of a non-physical nature that were created by a particular culture and are passed down from generation to generation within that culture. Cultural inventions may be a set of behaviors, a language, a legal or political system, a belief system or even music.
An example of a cultural invention is reggae music. It is a brand of music that is indigenous to the people of Jamaica. It started in the 1960's by Jamaican Rastafarians living there. Rastafarians worship the King Haile Selassie who was made emperor of Ethiopia in 1930. Reggae music evolved thirty years later from other forms of music that had existed prior to 1960. People who spread reggae music worldwide include Bob Marley and Peter Tosh and through cultural acculturation reggae music has been incorporated into other cultures such as the hip-hop culture of African-Americans and it has also been popularized in countries such as Germany and Japan.
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