Posted on 06/01/2011 6:57:20 AM PDT by mcosta79
Why is it that genetics is so important in breeding race horses and in agriculture but has little or no influence in humans? It makes no sense that genetics is important in plants and animals but never in humans.
I think their is very little "genetic" to it, and that it is 99.9% culture related.
And culture comes from where?
Culture comes from where?
In a word, parents. Or in the case of this culture, the lack thereof.
It’s the culmination of how kids are raised.
I’ll agree that there is a CORRELATION between genetic tendencies and cultural tendencies, but not a CAUSATION. The correlation comes from the same cause, which is geographic, reproductive, and cultural isolation from other people groups.
You can take a kid with the same genetic makeup, raise him in a totally different culture with a strong father, a set of higher behavioral expectations, no sense of entitlement or victimhood,
and he’ll eschew this kind of behavior every day of the week.
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