Valuable knowledge lies ahead for science

The acquisition of a cultural or multicultural identity is not the same for everyone, not to mention the fact that science doesn’t understand yet the nature of cultural and ethnic acquisition in children, though there are many schools of thought related to cognitive development. But cognitive development and even the brain can be injured during cognitive acquisition, such as with traumatization during meaning acquisition and emotional acquisition.

Parents and siblings can tell culturally-related stories to children, including stories about their ancestors. But that is not going to help for children who have had their cognitive acquisition shattered by traumatization and mental and verbal abuse. For example, my brain cells had already been altered by the time others read any kind of stories to me, including “The Little Engine that Could,” “Goldilocks,” “Jack and the Beanstalk” and Santa Claus. Dissociation had already set in.

I’m not sure if cutting-edge scientists are even ready yet to understand how my brain responded when we had dinner at times at an Italian restaurant in San Diego on India Street just three blocks from where the historic Star of India was docked. I was 3 or 4 years old, right around the time of being told that I was part Indian from India, part American Indian, part African-American and also part Italian (my father’s surname).

Valuable knowledge lies ahead for science and humanity to learn and share about the brain, the mind, the emotions, human nature, children, and the acquisitions of empathy and cultural consciousness. Orion Palomar, Eureka