Enculturation Quotes

“Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“We human beings constitute and reconstitute ourselves through cultural traditions, which we experience as our own development in a historical time that spans the generations. To investigate the life-world as horizon and ground of all experience therefore requires investigating none other than generativity - the processes of becoming, of making and remaking, that occur over the generations and within which any individual genesis is always already situated. ... Individual subjectivity is intersubjectively and culturally embodied, embedded, and emergent.”
― Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

“In an unconscious dynamic within most societies, the majority, or more accurately, the ruling or predominant minority, predicate or dictate the 'accepted' paradigm, traditions and beliefs; and the millions of people with unusual interests and even mystical experiences don't know that they are actually a huge and mostly voiceless group in the society.”
― Stephen Poplin, Inner Journeys, Cosmic Sojourns: Life transforming stories, adventures and messages from a spiritual hypnotherapist's casebook

“(Racism) can sometimes be ugly and overt like this, but more often than not, it's the drop of poison in the well that people don't notice because they've been drinking the same water for too long.”
― Jung Yun, O Beautiful