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"Paul F Austin" wrote:

"Derek Lyons" wrote ...
(John Schilling) wrote:

Except that cultural inheritance can be decoupled from biological. The
most blatant methods and examples involving adoption and compulsory
education, but even that isn't absolutely necessary. If a bunch of
unmarried, childless men and women in Hollywood produce every television
program watched and every video grame played by the fruit of your loins
from infancy through adulthood, then exactly whose descendents are we
really talking about?

That's only a valid question if the parents stand utterly silent and
absent from the child's entire life such that the child's only
cultural conditioning comes from said media.

Try Googling "Nanny wars".

There's a current hysteria among the "ordinary folk" who can afford live-in
help about their little darlings growing up speaking with a Guatemalan
accent.

What did they expect? I know they didn't look that far ahead. OTOH a
climate where you are a slacker if you only work 60 hours a week, or
find a part time job a McDoung's, doesn't leave a lot of time for child
care.

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