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 <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 July 2014 10:21, Alberto G. Corona <agocor...@gmail.com> 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?) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
