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...distinguish between moral attitudes and personality traits in terms of the extent each are molded by influences outside the home. What sets them apart? It hinges on the distinction between socialization and personality development. The strongest influence on morality is the local culture or subculture. But this influence may be different in different situations. For example, according to the local culture, it might be okay to cheat on a test in school but not okay to cheat in sports. Socialization adapts children to their culture - they learn to behave in the manner approved by their culture...
...continued to silence people that they have labeled “counterrevolutionary dissidents”—people that Chile and the United States would call productive citizens. When President Bachelet visited Cuba, she put Chile’s reputation at risk. She has categorically failed to distinguish between a dictatorship of the right—the Pinochet regime of which she was a victim and staunchly opposed—and an equally despicable dictatorship of the left...
...with which “Petite Mort” starts later seems incongruous, it charges the piece with aggression from the very first slash. The sexual tension continues to grow through the way in which male and female dancers weave their bodies together; at times it is impossible to distinguish where one body ends and the other begins. Yet this intimacy is never crass; the dancers don’t fuck, they make love. Still, Black and White is imbued with a brazen forthrightness; often the dancers bend their feet instead of pointing them or scurry across the stage...
...think so many women refuse to identify themselves as feminists? It's a mother/daughter thing. Their mothers called themselves feminists, so the daughters, in an attempt to distinguish themselves, have to call themselves something else. I think it's mostly terminology, that any terminology associated with women sooner or later becomes degraded. An executrix is laughable, an executor is not. An aviatrix is not as strong as an aviator. It has to do with the sexism that is in our society and often is unconscious. (See pictures of the 20th century's greatest romances...
...walk into my hospital room, and I say I don't believe in God, and you still provide a service, is this really spiritual at all? Could the care be the equivalent of such secular practices as meditation or yoga, and how would you distinguish that...