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Even if it's cultural, it can be fixed. Culture can change and can be changed by choice
by peab 2y ago
Even if it's cultural, it can be fixed. Culture can change and can be changed by choice
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- thfuran 2y agoCulture changes, but it's very hard to deliberately effect specific changes.
- mmooss 2y agoNot really. People deliberately persuade the public of things all the time. Some persuade them of absolutely false, awful things with regularity.
- thfuran 2y agoWhen you say "things", I assume you don't mean "to change deeply held values and cultural traditions".
- fragmede 2y agoLike eating meat? We've been doing that for millenia, yet somehow there's grass roots vegetarian and vegan movements all over the place.
- mmooss 2y agoSure, like women getting educated, working, and having equal rights? Universal literacy and education? Instant global telecommunications? Democracy? ... I think it can be done!
- thfuran 2y ago>Sure, like women getting educated, working, and having equal rights? That only took a few thousand years and still isn't really there yet.
- mmooss 2y agoIt took a couple decades really. I don't think what happened in 9th century Japan was really relevant to the modern women's rights movement. They delivered the results, and there's nothing you can say that changes the facts. You seem to really want to believe, and everyone to believe, how hopeless you are.
- yencabulator 2y agoYou know how everyone talks about the Finnish education system? That system was completely planned, designed, and transitioned into in the semi-recent past.
- nostromo 2y agoI hope you’re right. It’s very difficult to address culture in the US without being accused of victim blaming or bias. But the uncomfortable truth is that some cultural practices simply do produce better neighbors and coworkers and compatriots than do others.
- carlosjobim 2y agoWhat if culture springs from genetic inheritance? How do you change that?
- Aachen 2y agoAre you wondering whether some humans are better than others?! Eh, I don't have the research to know that's not the case, but this seems like an extraordinary hypothesis
- goodpoint 2y agoHuh?!
- TypingOutBugs 2y agoCultural evolution in genetics is a current topic of research For example: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/cultural-evolution-of-genetic-heritability/9CBEB629203EA430B6EE5549C5E729FC https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain...