yes.

[kaigou]

Religion is a circumstance of birth for most people. We're indoctrinated into it and that's where we hang out for most of our lives, wallowing in and out of varying degrees of fanaticism for it. ... Yeah, people convert, but outside of countries where [there's] Freedom of Religion or something, [for] the most part, generically speaking, you are what your parents taught you to be.

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[kaigou.livejournal.com]

And don't forget the inculturation process that we go through even as adults. Just moving from Point A to Point B, and there's a minor inculturation process (or major, depending on the variation between A and B). Hence culture shock, as we struggle against the unspoken rules of a new culture--unspoken because it's not like you get a stinkin' handbook when you move to a new city, state, or country.

I often suspect that the kids who are raised moving frequently are either less sensitive to culture shock--having gone through the acculturation process plenty of times as a child--or they're ten times more sensitive, due to the trauma of being uprooted so much as a child. Worst thing is you never really find out where you stand until that first big move as an adult.

Fffft. Is it time to go home yet? ;D