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@realcaseyrollins That's interesting. It's almost like people seek out relationships which are most familiar to them from their childhood, at least I think that would also fit in with what you've said.

Although I do wonder about young boys... are they more likely to imitate their mother if their father is absent in some way? Or more likely to turn to peer pressures if they don't have a strong male presence in their life?

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A young boy would probably be more predisposed to to imitate his father than his mother would be my guess. We do know that people tend to make friends with or at least hang out with people who look similar to them later in life, so I would also assume they would then dress like them, talk like them, and imitate certain mannerisms and behaviors in order to fit in.

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More than anything biology probably determines who one decides to imitate.

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I'm pretty sure that males have masculine forms, and women have feminine forms. How they behave might be a different matter, tho.

"Studies of prenatal androgen exposure have provided some evidence that femininity and masculinity are partly biologically determined."

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Oh, okay. Yeah thou is a word found in classic English literature, that's why it's generally popular among English-speakers.
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The first English sentence I learn is how do you do. I was born and raised in China

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@cantinto @feld @freemo @realcaseyrollins i mean holocaust wasn't the only reason. Soviet union eventually started systematically killing jewish people or otherwise oppressing them and overall zeitgeist in europe wasn't... good.

What makes it a complicated subject is that on one side you have an entire nation suddenly moving to a piece of land and claiming it's the land of their ancestors and its their right to live there even if said ancestors abandoned the land, on the other hand you have people already living there for generations, not liking the intruders.

simpler analogy would be - there's an abandoned castle somewhere and nobody is sure whom it belongs to, but there are people already living there, suddenly some other person shows up and says his dad lived in there and shows a piece of paper saying that said dad willed it to them, not really verified by anyone but seems legit™, they have a lot of fights with eachother and now you're tasked on resolving their conflict. You literally cannot win in this situation: ignore them and you'll be called incompetent and dysfunctional and lose trust in you, do literally anything and some people will hate you for it.
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