'enculturated'?

[policywonk]

I mean, really?

Does anyone have a bigger dictionary than I have, because I'd really like to edit this one out if I can...

(Meaning - to have attitudes that are moderated by one's culture, I think. So that's all of us, then.)

Does not sound right does it?

I would have said acculturation, but I've just googled and that seems to have acquired a more specific meaning to do with accepting norms of a foreign culture.

Enculturation is ugly but I think acceptable?

Or if you can't bear it what about socialisation.

But perhaps there is a subtle academic distinction between these?

Oh, OK then. If you say so.

(What happened to your other thread about the silly woman and the intelligent child? Was the matter resolved to your satisfaction?)

It's about people having 'agency', and how perceptions of agency are culturally mediated (eg, a woman in a strict Islamic society might not see a lack of agency in being unable to go out unaccompanied). The authors don't have English as a first language though, so it's all a bit garbled.

Here for blatant plag update Sad to lose Jack Tremane in process.

You are sterner than me with your authors.

Oh would def change if is author's second language. I had a fabulously fun job the other day of revising an article on Jeremy Bentham by a Japanese man. Rewrote every sentence. It was charming, Bentham's English being almost as tortured as the Japanese man's.

Socialising probably relates to behaviour rather than self-perception though. Sounds interesting.

Must go now. I am about to break a lifetime abstention from James Bond to go and lust at D. Craig in Casino Royale on DVD.

Righto, I'll change it. Most of my authors are non-English - hence the strictness. It suits my bossy temperament.

Glad you got your apology.

Sounds like a Bush word!

"Mah fullow merkins. Ah is delighted to be here to open this library today. Ah wishes to stress thuh importance of enculturatin' our people an' of thuh improvificatin' effect of book-readin'. Mahself ah have a most impressive library of books at home in the White House, an' ah have almost finished colourin' in the first fifty."

Getting them in while we still have the chance... not long to go now!!

UQD. I thought that myself!

LOL@UQD

pmsl UQD - very good! Almost a shame to lose him (no, not really!)

what a weird word.
Rofl at UQD