I think that one could take any characteristic in which humans differ from each other (whether individually or on a category-average) and imagine a culture that would value more the aspect that our culture values less. Parents of kids with ADHD are familiar with this phenomenon--much (not, in every case, all) of the trouble that kids with ADHD have comes from the expectations of our culture, especially but not exclusively in school settings.
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Date: 2005-01-21 05:05 am (UTC)