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How a culture copies itself into you before you ever agree to it.
means The gradual process of absorbing the beliefs, habits, and norms of the culture you're raised in, mostly without formal lessons or consent.
from Built in the 20th century from Latin-rooted English parts: the prefix 'en-' (to put into) plus 'culture' (from Latin 'cultura,' cultivation or tending) plus the noun-forming suffix '-ation.' Anthropologists coined it directly, modeling it on the older term 'acculturation' (adapting to a culture not originally your own), to name the specific, quieter process of being shaped by the culture you're born into from the start.
- starts early
- begins in infancy, long before conscious choice exists
- not acculturation
- that is learning a new culture, this is absorbing your own
- mostly invisible
- feels like personality, is actually inherited script
- transmitted via
- family, school, media, repetition, not formal lessons