The “Butterfly Effect,” from an anthropological perspective, can be witnessed in the migration of Europeans to the New World.  Certainly, the current culture and attitudes that are evident in the United States were not the ones if those that permeated the land three or four hundred years ago.  Who we are “now” has been shaped from the influx of different languages, religions and races; each geometrically developed with irrevocable insights and setbacks, by war and peace.