Some adults live in an infantile world of imposed, unquestioned values.

Evidence

There are beings whose life slips by in an infantile world because, having been kept in a state of servitude and ignorance, they have no means of breaking the ceiling which is stretched over their heads. Like the child, they can exercise their freedom, but only within this universe which has been set up before them, without them. This is the case, for example, of slaves who have not raised themselves to the consciousness of their slavery. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 33

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘infantile world’ of slave and harem women connects directly to Naqvi’s Home Boy and the psychology of colonial/immigrant subjects who inherit a world not of their making.