molds people’s thinking? Our society readily accepts the postmodern proposition that people are entirely the product of their cultural conditioning. People can hardly be expected to think or act in any way other than how their culture shapes them. An inner-city boy, for instance, lands in jail because his culture made him a certain way. We increasingly view the differences between people not as the result of life decisions or directions chosen by the individual, but as the result of different cultural
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