> That's what all "good" culture, passed from one generation to the next
> , is: taking from the experience and praxis of parental generations so
> that daughter generations can learn from words without having to go
> through the same difficult experience and hardknocks that the parental
> generation did.
>
> ( There is "bad" culture too)
I suspect this bad culture works the same way, actually: those who socialize socialize for their own reasons, and many parents (whose reasons are the particular atomistic welfare of their own children) have learned through hard knocks that atavistic behavior is the best survival technique for the individual. Maybe some American cultural individualism is the result of a division of labor where more socialization occurs through the immediate family than in other societies.