Even though a guardian may choose to dress/makeup the appearance . They really don't have control of the mind, the spirit. It will be what it will be.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
So the appearance of a thing by a recognized observer, it's label, is not necessarily its action when not being observed and controlled.
Fear of reprisal, punishment doesn't equal absolute acceptance.
As
@Altfish said:
The majority of people do not "choose" their belief system, it is imposed on them by their parents
It’s a form of indoctrination.
Parents instill their beliefs, which as illustrated with:
Explain to me then why, if you are born in India you are most likely a Hindu; if Pakistan a Muslim and if from the USofA a Christian?
Wherein the parents themselves had been indoctrinated into the religion which is part and parcel of the culture which reinforces the beliefs within that culture.
The more homogenous and fundamentalist the social culture they’re brought up within; the more uncompromising they tend to be.
Or as Mark Twain put it:
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
And:
“It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.”
You gotta admit….the man had a way with words!
