And in any case 'natural selection' would just be replaced by 'cultural selection' - which
is natural.
Brent
On 7/24/2014 3:42 PM, LizR wrote:
Oh, OK, WIkipedia! (oops!)
*Cultural determinism*is the belief that the culture in which we are raised determines
who we are at emotional and behavioral levels. This supports the theory that
environmental influences dominate who we are instead of biologically inherited traits.
That sounds a bit like "blank-slateism", the idea that humans are somehow divorced from
their genetic inheritance and can be adapted to any purpose via acculturalism, if that's
the word. I generally feel this is untrue, partly due to twin studies and so on, and
partly because I'm not sure what it would mean if it was true... however, obviously
culture has an /influence/ on people. If you're born in 1930 you probably think the
Beatles ruined popular music, or something. In 1940, you think the opposite. And so on.
On 25 July 2014 10:37, LizR <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
On 25 July 2014 10:21, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Cultural determism is incompatible with natural selection.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is cultural determinism? (Or what would it
be, if
there was such a thing?)
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