Looking over the responses and comments to this question, it had me thinking on how things are perceived, and have been over my lifetime, be it the continued existence of Jim Crow, fat people, drug use, homeless people, feminism, modern day robber barons, Big Pharm, etc. from what I can extrapolate, a large portion of how someone sees something is determined by how it was fed to them directly or indirectly throughout their lives, through home, school, peers, etc. How would those influences not have an effect on how the idea would be formed? If you grew up around people who thought capitalism was bad, big business was just a bunch of crooks cheating the little man, even if there were no definitive proof, you might slant your thinking to believing it because that is what the group you interacted with daily said and thought. Not everything falls prey to that but when you truly think on it, much does. What would you argue to say one’s cultural influence or exposure has no bearing on how one forms their idea of things, or do you think there is some but innocuous?

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