Which factor has been most responsible for spreading West African culture beyond Africa? Please help me I will give brainlist!

The factor that has helped spread West African Culture the most is, ironically, the large human movement from West Africa to the Americas that the Atlantic Slave Trade represented.

Explanation:

Over 12 million Africans were shipped from Africa to the Americas during the course of the Atlantic Slave Trade, which lasted around 400 years. The majority of these enslaved Africans were from West Africa.

When they arrived in the Americas, they were subjected to brutal treatment, and the condition of slavery, but, in spite of this, they managed to develop some cultural forms, most of which stemmed from their original cultures back in West Africa (alongside new cultural elements taken either from European or from Native American infuences).

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.

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