There are three elements that create cultural transmission in a way that is not easily quantifiable.
We tend to be very good at reproducing our own norms, values, and customs, and we tend to be very bad at reproducing those of the people around us. This isn’t really new and it doesn’t change if we’re in a culture with more immigrants than natives. It is though that we are both so good at reproducing norms that we can often convince ourselves that we are so good at reproducing them that we are not aware of these cultural norms.
Culture is a way of life. It is a set of social norms (like standards of conduct) that we all tend to follow. It is a set of cultural artifacts that we all tend to value in a similar way. For example, we all tend to have a great deal of respect for the work of great artists such as Mozart, Beethoven, and Shakespeare. Most of us tend to view the work of those people in a similar way.
This is because those works are not just the result of great artists; they are also the result of great teachers. I’m not saying that these works are better than anything else; I’m just saying that they are the result of great teachers, who helped create the culture that produced them.
So if you want your kids to learn about great works of art, you must teach them about great teachers. If you want your kids to have a great education, you must teach them about great works of art. So what do you do when you’re teaching your kids about great works of art? You create it. That’s the point where we get into the cultural transmission of values.
The cultural transmission of values is not really a good idea. The idea is that you teach values to your children. They teach the values to our children. As a parent, you teach values to your kids. As a teacher, you teach the values to your students.
That’s the problem, not the lesson. We’re teaching values to our children. Not to our kids, but to our parents.
We have two very popular examples of what I like to call a “cultural transmission”. First, a lot of the time we don’t know what is acceptable to our kids (it’s too hard for a parent to know what is acceptable to their children, when we’re in a very narrow group to be honest) which is always the case with many cultures, and second, we don’t know what a cultural transmission is, but we are told how it should be.
Its a weird thing. Sure, you can look at a cultural transmission as a “good” thing, but it often is a “bad” thing. You can also look at a cultural transmission as a “bad” thing, but it often is a “good” thing. If we are taught to be good, we become very good. If we are taught to be bad, we become very bad. The same thing happens in education.
I’m not saying that some cultures are bad and others are good. In fact, I’m not sure that there is a definitive answer to this question. I would say that it is a complex issue, but that it is not a simple dichotomy. Our education system is one of the many ways that we learn to think and to behave.