Thank you. Cultural norms are often have the most significant impact in historical events, and of course should be emphasized to students instead of engaging in delusional presentism.
Excellent point. I think people have legitimate fears of certain belief norms. Parents fear their children will be brainwashed by teachers or university cultures. But what’s really going on here? Parents actually have the most influence over their children’s beliefs. But some parents don’t realize this. Maybe most parents don’t. I’m unsure on the fraction.
What is true is that most parents have outsourced a very large fraction of their children’s learning to teachers. Often public school and university teachers. These school cultures rub off on their children.
Many of these cultures are conformist. They purport to be for diversity, empathy and tolerance, but are actually intolerant and close-minded. Often censorious. Racist and sexist against so called oppressors.
Students are not allowed to take on or imagine belief norms deemed unacceptable. They aren’t allowed to empathize with certain fringe, abnormal and extreme beliefs. Rather a label is placed on certain beliefs as either bad or good. We don’t seem to allow ourselves to empathize with those holding or who held bad beliefs, even though those beliefs were considered norms in a certain time and place.
Thank you. Cultural norms are often have the most significant impact in historical events, and of course should be emphasized to students instead of engaging in delusional presentism.
Excellent point. I think people have legitimate fears of certain belief norms. Parents fear their children will be brainwashed by teachers or university cultures. But what’s really going on here? Parents actually have the most influence over their children’s beliefs. But some parents don’t realize this. Maybe most parents don’t. I’m unsure on the fraction.
What is true is that most parents have outsourced a very large fraction of their children’s learning to teachers. Often public school and university teachers. These school cultures rub off on their children.
Many of these cultures are conformist. They purport to be for diversity, empathy and tolerance, but are actually intolerant and close-minded. Often censorious. Racist and sexist against so called oppressors.
Students are not allowed to take on or imagine belief norms deemed unacceptable. They aren’t allowed to empathize with certain fringe, abnormal and extreme beliefs. Rather a label is placed on certain beliefs as either bad or good. We don’t seem to allow ourselves to empathize with those holding or who held bad beliefs, even though those beliefs were considered norms in a certain time and place.