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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]This all illustrates lack of socialization. The parents’ and thus the kids’.[/b]

Imagine how many kids continued to. It socialize or realize there were “other ways of doing things” and just continue on. [/quote]

Sort of. I know that my mother was very well socialized by her parents. But she was a horrible raving lunatic — and that seemed to have prevented her from picking any of it up permanently and definitely prevented her from teaching any of it to us.[/quote]

Socialized means beyond manners and etiquette and cultural normals; it means you went out weekly and interacted with other families and ages groups.  At temple, at restaurants, when traveling, had/at parties, went to sports games or arts, wandered museums, visited friends and family in person.

You socialized with other humans. Not the tv. Not only your parents. [/quote]

I feel like cultural norms vary though. You can't know manners in every setting and culture even with the "best upbringing".[/quote]

Well read people or people who socialize across various circles or many circles do. Besides reading or picking up on others’ cultural nuances, you can first hand just follow their lead.

Ex. when I lived in Asia I did not pee down the storm drains nor hack up phlegm out in public or my house multiple times a day. But totally acceptable there! 
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I highly doubt peeing down the drain is normal in any country. Or was it a slum you visited? 
Kind of like a visitor will think drug dealing is totally acceptable in the US if they just visited Skid row.[/quote]

NP. There are many countries where a public restroom is just a hole in the floor. Russia comes to mind.[/quote]

Those things are not a matter of culture or 'civilized' or whatever this thread is about. It's just about not enough money to build adequate infrastructure - you see normal toilets/sewage system in more affluent parts of Russia.[/quote]

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