This paper falls into two parts--a Western interpretation and an Eastern critique of the same process. The first part provides an interpretation of how we learn to become culturally embedded individuals. The paper notes the learning processes in the formation of the cultural and national self. We, in the West, have traditionally assumed that the…

Investigates the relationship between the amount of learning which occurs in children during home television viewing and the presence of parental interaction during this period and concludes that parental interaction enhances incidental learning. (MH)