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| adjl 12/10/19 8:49:57 AM #19: | Kyuubi4269 posted... It's basically people's grandparents being raised in it and being the generation that rejected it. Do you think people are generally racist because of the odd racist grandpa? It hasn't been culturally acceptable for so long full-grown adults have no first hand experience of it at all. That doesn't mean you're suddenly going to have an abundance of old female chess pros mentoring a new generation of girls that are looking for role models, nor that all (or even a majority) of those old dudes are going to be so progressive as to want to give a girl pointers. Just because the cultural norm is no longer to say "women can't play chess" doesn't mean girls have the same access to chess resources that boys do. It'll get there, but there's absolutely no reason to expect that to happen in less than 50 years (and certainly not to conclude that there's something inherent preventing it from happening if it hasn't happened already). Kyuubi4269 posted... A notable part of culture is how quickly it evolves. Compared to biological evolution, sure, but it's not that fast. Bear in mind that you're not talking about evolution in response to selective pressure being applied, you're talking about evolution in response to selective pressure being removed, which is generally going to be much slower because it lacks the pressure needed t drive the change. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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