Question

Oxana Malaya is a girl from Russia who was raised by dogs rather than her parents (children like this are referred to as feral children). Before she was rescued and resocialized she would engage in very doglike behaviors (moving on all four limbs, urinating to mark territory, barking instead of speaking, etc.). This illustrates the idea that:

Answer 1

Culture is learned

Step-by-step explanation:

Cultural learning is the way a group of people within a society or culture tend to learn and pass on information to the younger members of society.

When we are born, we are born with reflexes and instincts, we are not born with a culture but we are born into a culture. Therefore, our parents or primary caregivers are the ones who, since we are babies, teach us what is acceptable and what's not acceptable in the society we were born and therefore we learn all these accepted behaviors that are part of our culture.

The fact that Oxana Malaya was raised by dogs and that she would engage in very doglike behaviors (before being resocialized) illustrates the idea of how she learned from the dogs and she acquired doglike behaviors.

Therefore, this is an example of how we, as humans, are not born with a culture but rather that culture is learned.