niamhybeag
The idea of anybody learning social interaction from that rubbish is just a little terrifying.
Yet it is not only possible, it is causally probable in many cases.
I look around, I wonder, why would a person react the way they did.
The answer: I saw this on an episode of "The Real World" or "Survivor". This is so like the social dynamics I see in bad TV. These people have had very limited social interaction with others outside their family and the interwebs, so they author their behaviour based off what they have seen. TV to be specific. This isn't new. "Reality TV" is new, mind you, but media influencing or reinforcing social mores is a developed sociological construct. The different restrictions on speech in movies resonated with an era when using obscenities publicly was anathema. Spike in media violence... well, people will internalize that that is the way things happen in the world and behave as they are shown. Human intimacy demonized or made taboo? Watch the host of psycho-sexual disorders flood in.
Especially in eras where the family is disintegrated, other forces shall fill the vacuum of teaching.
When both parents (assuming there are two present) are working and the child is left to learn from the programmes their sitter (if they have one) or they flip on. Schools keep the children locked down, preventing much in the way of interaction or societal development there, and families with fewer advantages often cannot afford to have their child(ren) in extra-curricular activities(assuming they are available in the area). This leads to continued isolation.
So, with the advent of the required double-income household, we have effectively sold the developmental control of the younger generation to media and the school system. Both of which (at least in the U.S.) have proven themselves untrustworthy in the extreme.
I could go on, but methinks the horse is dead now.
sweatdrop