106d. How children learn?
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Controlling Children's Behaviour
In China shame is an essential social and moral emotion of virtue. Developing a sense of shame is important in becoming a full member of their culture. Confucius was kind of pro-shame. The main cultural tool boffee foragers use to maintain their egalitarian sharing is rough joking. Someone who does not share appropriately will become the butt of jokes or be made fun of in community-wide stories. In what is called women will catch hold of the hands of two little boys two or three years old and make them hit each other in the face until they start lunging out on their own accounts.
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