kengr

Major changes take place in the brain during puberty. Adults literally do not think the way kids do. That's no excuse, but it does explain the distance most adults feel from their childhood. (How many times have you heard someone relate something dangerous or outrageous they did as a child and express bafflement that they could ever have been so "stupid"?)

Of course, most of the type of behavior you describe is simply due to the tendency of most humans to believe that everything has always been the way it is here and now. I've seen adults do this with other adults who are from a different background.

A few years ago, a Japanese businessman who had moved to this area due to the Toyota plant was arrested for not stopping when a police car pulled up behind his vehicle with the flashing lights on. They had to drop the charges. Turns out nowhere in the Kentucky drivers' manual did it say you have to stop when a police car pulls up behind you with the lights flashing.