We are drifting right off a serious topic here.
JohnD said:
Cultural practices become ingrained, and people soon come to believe that what they're used to is "right" and that anything else would be "wrong"
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we like to think that European people are immune from irrational and damaging behaviour, but it isn't true
Not so many decades ago, right here in our supposedly well educated corner of the planet, many women passed onto their daughters the idea that sex was one of the duties that came with marriage. "If you want a husband, learn to put up with it. Washing, cooking, cleaning, sex, babies. That's a woman's lot, unless you want to die an old maid!"
Certainly, the idea that "All men are bar stewards." was commonplace and "They're only after one thing." was almost universal among the female population.
Where did they learn this? It's a pretty fair bet that it wasn't from their fathers! (Sadly, we men were complicit in this because so many of us took little interest in child care in their early years - and, even when they were older, we paid far more attention to our sons.)
What does this have to do with the original post? Well, it seems to me that the mid-20th century British women filling her daughter's head with the garbage she picked up from her own mother is not so different from the African woman dragging her daughter into the bush to be butchered by the local excuse for a midwife. The principle is the same; it's only the scale that differs.