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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Are You a Dissident of a Culture of Honor?
If you were a dissident in modern China these days, of people who two generations ago were wheat farmers rather than rice farmers. You're more likely to have filed for a patent. If your ancestors lived in a desert, you were more likely to be polytheistic. Mothers from collectivist cultures on the average sing lullabies to their newborn at different decibels. And that's just the first step. All you're doing from the very first step there up until adulthood is propagating the cultural values you were raised with and that leave an imprint into your brain"
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