Behavior is shaped by abandoned family and cultural roots

Evidence

The forces that shape our behavior, Bedford tells us, lie further back in the past than we know, back in a family and a culture we may have abandoned. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 573

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the chapter’s Sacks epigraph: buried childhood continuities drive adult motive long after departure. — connects to: An immigrant child’s cultural consciousness can vanish with its oldest generation. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 979; Traditional social structures and orders can disintegrate over time; Loss of cultural belief leads to chaos and conflict. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 84 (+5 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 573

Related

• An immigrant child’s cultural consciousness can vanish with its oldest generation. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Loss of cultural belief leads to chaos and conflict. #corroborates (0.65) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 84
• Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #expands (0.55)
• Traditional social structures and orders can disintegrate over time #expands (0.40)