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None of those things are created by "culture", although all of those things will create a "culture". People are mislabelling the supposed effect as the cause.
But that leads me to a separate point about "culture" that I hate - which is the implication that some cultures arise independent of the external forces placed upon them. And, similarly wrong, that said cultures will change even if the external forces remain largely the same.
very well said, and ive made this point before, as well.
i feel like there are my cyclical problems in our perpetually poor neighborhoods, that are not limited to education. the people growing up here are desperate, and behave as young desperate people often will. some of this has become a "cultural problem," but policy needs to meet such people halfway, otherwise, nothing will change, aside from the odd outlier individual here and there.