Acceptance of violence is a transmitted skill, not a cultural trait

Evidence

Third: the fairness argument is a moral argument made by children, independently, without adult prompting, across every cultural context in which the research has been conducted. This is not a finding from Western children who have been exposed to the prohibition debate. It is a finding from children in Uganda, in Bangladesh, in Bolivia, in contexts where the debate about corporal punishment’s permissibility has not penetrated the daily life of the community. These children have not read Korczak or Key or the CRC. They have worked out the same argument that Korczak and Key made in the twentieth century and that the CRC codified in 1989, from their own experience and observation. The consistency of the argument across cultures and across methodological contexts suggests it is not a culturally transmitted idea. It is a moral perception. Children perceive the unfairness directly. They do not need to be taught it. The observation that adults can hit children but children cannot hit adults is not a childish confusion about discipline. It is a sophisticated moral argument about equality and consistency under rules. — , The Rod and the Child, 9955 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

The collective unconscious is not dependent on cerebral heredity; it is the result of what I shall call the unreflected imposition of a culture. Hence there is no reason to be surprised when an Antillean exposed to waking-dream therapy relives the same fantasies as a European. It is because the Antillean partakes of the same collective unconscious as the European. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Children’s fairness objection to hitting arises from moral perception, not cultural transmission. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9955; The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668; Ethnoreligious violence stems from human social psychology, not Buddhism’s tenets — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 86

Related

• Children’s fairness objection to hitting arises from moral perception, not cultural transmission. (similarity 0.86)
• Children spontaneously articulate the logical incoherence of legalized adult violence against them (similarity 0.80)
• Infants’ early sensitivity to social patterns is conventional perception, not moral judgment. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Children’s fairness objection to hitting arises from moral perception, not cultural transmission. #contradicts (0.82) — , The Rod and the Child, 9955
• The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited #expands (0.72) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668