elvismercury

Politics_And_Law

Brainwashing starts at home

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> And of course, one person's "brainwashing" is another person's "cultural transmission."  It is, after all, pretty remarkable that Christians overwhelmingly have Christian parents, Muslims Muslim parents, etc.

I'll push back against this a *little* bit.

To me, I'd call it brainwashing if the message that's communicated is more of an unthinking, us against them, variety, which is what I think the 5th graders were presenting.

If it's a more fully fleshed out worldview that's been communicated, like "this is why we believe what we believe", or "these are our values", then that's what I'd call cultural transmission of the non-brainwashing variety.


