I wanted to give a rebuttal to some ideas on Societies, Cultures and

en-culturation, from the real terms of what Societies are, what Cultures

are and what en-culturation is.

When anthropologists speak of cultures they do not mean the literary and artistic achievements and standards of “cultured” elites.   For anthropologists plumbers and farmers are as cultured as art collectors and concert goers, and studying the ordinary people is just as important as studying the lives of famous and influential people including patterned, repetitive ways of thinking, feeling and acting.

The definition of culture as consisting of patterns of acting ( behaviour as well as patterns of thought and feeling allows the precedent set by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor the founder of Anthropology in the English speaking world and author of the first general anthropology text book.

Culture…taken in its wide ethnographic sense is that complex whole which includes knowledge,  belief, art, morals, laws, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. The condition of cultures among the various societies of mankind, in so far as it is capable of being investigated on general principles, is a subject apt for study of Laws of human thought and action.  

 

                                In culture do not mistake ideas for behaviour.

In cultures, behaviour often changes and is higher in number of people using that said behaviour, and this in itself can change societies around the world. It is called, “enculturation of an idea before behaviour.”

Then one can speak of behaviour programming a people’s ideas as readily as the ideas programming causes the people’s behaviour. My example: before the 1970’s,  women counted on men for income for families. After 1970 women were in the work forces, and expected to carry their own weight. This idea was driven by higher costs in the economy, higher costs for food, for transportation, for housing, for medical, teeth care, mental care, for schooling, sports equipment costs, for clothing, for insurance, for heating, and put women back into the work force to make ends meet. That is a different reasoning than choice. It was driven this way on purpose. It is a common pattern in our societies for women to be pushed back into the home to look after offspring. Today the highest number of women in the workforce proves that behaviour comes before the idea of equality. It is conditioning, and being reinforced to pay high prices for a higher standard of living. That programming is considered to be “en-culturation of ideas.” The idea of women having a choice with costs so high is preposterous. If you want a child, you must work at being, a parent plus work to pay the high cost of living, making life too difficult. Ideas need slow down in enculturation, and ideas need more research.

Society;

What does the term Society en-culturate? Society means an organized group of people who share means of organized  groups, who share a habitat and who depend on each other for their survival and well being.

Since the human societies have a state as their form of Political organization who in its’ wisdom makes sure it’s citizens have well being and survival status, this has failed completely in 2015 to 2023.

There are sub groups that possess more or less distinctive lifestyles. Anthropologists use the word for distinctive different lifestyles as “subcultures.” The characteristics of this group of the subcultures, are often behaviours that exist outside the norm of behaviours of the governing group. This term indicates that the culture of a society is not uniform for all it’s members. Thus even small societies that have female and male subcultures are proven to be living dangerous lifestyle patterns. These subculture groups might have different patterns of religious, ethnic, and class distinctiveness, but when you endanger the existence of human forms of homo sapiens, should we take another look.

The culture of a large society tends to be similar for many respects from one generation to the next. In part this continuity in life-ways is maintained by the process known as “enculturation.” Enculturation” is a partly conscious and unconscious learning experience. Whereby the older generation invites and induces and compels the younger generation to adopt ways of thinking and behaving. For example; Chinese children use chop sticks instead of knives and forks. They speak with a tonal language as many English do, but different tones and rhythm. All enculturation is meant to lead us to living a Peaceful, rewarding, harmonized life where we indeed Value human existence. Failure to understand enculturation and understanding the general principles of culture,  in a failure to comprehend the role of enculturation, and with the reward system of reinforcement causing the behaviour to not conform in maintaining each groups patterns of behaviours, is causing a great deal of harm.

This has caused ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism means that one always believes one’s own patterns of behaviour and thought are always natural, good, beautiful and important. If you understand enculturation, the ones you call savages, inhuman, disgusting, and irrational lifestyles might very well be yours if you were enculturated into their lifestyle. We do not kill. This brings in the idea of “cultural relativism.” We must be committed to trying to understand different cultures with their own preferences and beliefs, and enculturation,  that seem to be getting in the way of Peace.

Under the present conditions in 2024, January 16th, the day before Ukrainian Christmas is celebrated, it is easy to account for considerable portions of lifestyles of existing groups. Clearly replications of cultural patterns from one generation to the next, is never complete. Old patterns are not necessarily repeatable in successive generational enculturation of patterns. In parents that expect their children to replicate their behaviour, might find themselves very disappointed. The rate of innovation and non-replication in our industrial societies has reached proportions alarming to adults who understand the dangers of this lack of continuity. This lack of generational continuity has been called the generation gap, and explains why elders are unable to understand the new generation no matter how removed their society norms,  or how simple the society, or sub culture.

Rapid culture change has driven us to be extinguishing our populations at alarming rates. The job numbers are few because of the new technological age. Robots are now partners sexually and everyday partners with those that are a sub culture. Religiosity must be a part of future culture of continuity for morals, integrity, ethics and the “Value” of one human being, a homo sapien,  that indeed is a biological organism that counts on it’s biosphere for survival. Scientific facts cannot be disputed if true.

Economic patterns  must be discussed for the future of the generations to come, and I as a biased voter, elder, female xx chromosome binary heterosexual, who is creator of offspring,  would ask that our offspring, take their decisions under inspection, and very carefully consider for long term, your choices. This is your life, but we want you as offspring to survive long term.

This article is written for the purpose of many understanding the terms societies, cultural enculturation, and should bring to conscious awareness a discussion on where we go from here. We have climate change,we have large governments that are over taxing, high costs of living that require two to work in the work force to carry costs, and housing shortages  for the over a million people who crossed our borders illegally. It is my perspective alone, after listening to Dr. Malone that we have lost our way completely to a sane sound future, under the guise of a genome project meant for genetic therapy. The vaccines put out for covid, indeed do cover for about 3 months in efficacy, but they cannot come up with researched vaccines fast enough to deal with this ongoing biological attack on our biology that mutates faster than we can keep up. The overlap of time where the immune system is over reacting to the intrusion of our ace 2 by new spike proteins, and mutations of the original covid 19, is causing large groups of individuals to die in not only England bu all over the world. This needs investigation with an open mind. The Politics of the genome programme in Science has caused extinction of a large portion of our world’s population of homo sapiens. Our brother’s and sisters. With respect, I ask you read this with the utmost care.

Written by Carolyn D Hogarth (the brain cannot be attacked by any biological attack without huge consequences).