| A culture hearth is the center of a culture region where people share common culture traits. |
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| In this culture hearth, among English people who had come importantly from East Anglia, a New England culture developed, with its own dialect and the values of a strong work ethic. |
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| Anthropologists refer to the Middle American culture hearth as Mesoamerica, which extended southeast from the vicinity of present-day Mexico City to central Nicaragua. |
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| The Middle East is a culture hearth, a source area or innovation center from which cultural traditions were transmitted to the rest of the world. |
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| The same changes which occurred in Westphalia in the past two decades have occurred in both of the other villages, but apparently at a much earlier date than at the culture hearth. |
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