Well, environment is culture in the anthropological sense. (We're agreeing here, I'm just throwing out some cultural anthropologist babble bcs I kinda miss school. Beh.)
Anthropological definition of culture - Habits, beliefs, morals, ethics, arts, laws, customs, blah blah learned by man in a society. Intrinsic in society. If you have a society, you will have culture. Even if there are two of you on a desert island. ^_^
Parents, of course, are the biggest conveyers of culture to a small child, but they are also enculturated by television, school, experience in the world, random things they see, etc. A kid can be "enculturated" from something as obvious as being taught manners to something as small as a poorly concealed frown from his father when he picks up a Barbie Doll. (I.e. Parents may say they are raising the boy and the girl equal, but then small cues like that tip the children off that boys play with trucks, etc.)
So yeah, culture/environment - same thing. ^_^
Which is why some people should never become parents.
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Date: 11 Mar 2005 03:43 pm (UTC)Anthropological definition of culture - Habits, beliefs, morals, ethics, arts, laws, customs, blah blah learned by man in a society. Intrinsic in society. If you have a society, you will have culture. Even if there are two of you on a desert island. ^_^
Parents, of course, are the biggest conveyers of culture to a small child, but they are also enculturated by television, school, experience in the world, random things they see, etc. A kid can be "enculturated" from something as obvious as being taught manners to something as small as a poorly concealed frown from his father when he picks up a Barbie Doll. (I.e. Parents may say they are raising the boy and the girl equal, but then small cues like that tip the children off that boys play with trucks, etc.)
So yeah, culture/environment - same thing. ^_^
Which is why some people should never become parents.
*raises hand!!*