How the way you think was shaped centuries ago

Thank you my friend PO1 Tony Holland for posting the article from Joe Henrich in the BBC Weird West series.
Most research on human psychology focuses on Western societies, but the way people in the West think can be traced to changes in family structures in the Middle Ages.

I was raised to think independently by my British expatriate parents and to reach my own conclusions. This caused some confrontations in my teen years as my conclusions sometimes were vehemently in opposition to my parents and sisters.
I have generally marched to the beat of a different drum.
When I was young that caused angst. As I matured it helped me interact with a wide range of people of different faiths, cultures, and societal mores.
In some ways conformism and non-conformism are encouraged at times and discouraged at times within generations in similar cultures.

As communications moved from strictly interpersonal to over radio and light waves in the current milieu, the norms of groups which tended to stay together transformed into many more young people wanting to strike out on their own. [Obviously this is post feudal times when the majority were serfs]

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Very interesting article. We tend to forget that the modern nuclear family is an exception to the rule rather than the rule.