@AndrewMurphie@indieweb.social

Each one of us is undoubtedly the product of our genes and shaped by the history of all the interactions we had in life, but this sounds a little bit over the top, doesn't it?

>Then look at the forces that brought them to the professor’s office, feeling empowered to challenge a point. They’re more likely to have had parents who themselves were college educated, more likely to hail from an individualistic culture rather than a collective one. All of those influences subtly nudge behavior in predictable ways.

Students with uneducated parents coming from a "collectivist culture" are less likely to challenge authority? I beg to differ.

Also, "*more likely*" and "*trying not to be a jerk*" are not quite deterministic statements, and all the processing and choices I make unconsciously are made by no one else but me and free of any external influence.