uh, Richard? First link - lotsa stuff there. I don't have time (or inclination) to plow throw it and discern whether it makes sense.

Second link - ok, don't mean to be dismissive, but it looks pretty much like a postmodern, theoretical overstatement of the notion that cultural artefacts get handed down between generations. Eureka.... they're still learned things, not innate, and that which can be learned can be molded, unlearned, transmogrified, and/or outgrown.

Santa - I don't find the rejection of the "home culture" - at least at some developmental stage - particularly puzzling. In the same way as we need to leave our parents' hearth & home, sometimes we leave the larger context, for more or less the same emotional reasons. Sometimes we outgrow that need to leave, and sometimes we don't.