Spiralling observations

[Dazz]

I'll outline an observation rather than waffle.

In psychology studies at uni I've being learning a wide range of materials, one thing that stuck out to me was findings on multiculturism and cultural frame switching where it was highlighted in experiments they discovered an ability to switch personalities based on perceptional cues, such as a chinese person speaking to another native chinese person would behave and act differently than the same chinese person speaking to an american person. This is a very superficial overview but if you found research articles on the topics you could gain a more in-depth understanding. The findings are across cultures/language and can be primed such as being shown a picture of a chinese person influences fluency and language abilities. 

I've been considering that if you think about it, this can really be applied down to the most basic level. In these experiments they took people from different countries, but if you took people from different households, for example a child who had a separate household for their mother and father, you would find similar themes. Their mother would communicate in a specific way to them, based on their own formations of language and their experience, their unique attitudes and behaviours, assumptions and bias, that the child would then most likely adopt most of rather unconsciously (for example attitudes towards police), and likewise with their father, they would have their own absorption of his experience. Maybe if  you showed a child a picture of their mother before interview, it would influence similarly, likewise showing them a picture of their father.

So, what's been observed on the wider country level, may be narrowed down into individual levels, and you could keep going with this through different avenues. So, is there really anything groundbreaking about the initial observations? Obviously, to the scientists the first are backed by scientific observation, and mine are simply imaginary. I don't feel like this is anything I could really discuss with lecturers. 

Maybe there's a term for this but I've found myself making these 'spiralling observations' whenever I am learning things. I find it interesting but I'm not sure if it's that useful. Is this anything that anyone else has any experience of? If so, would you consider others being open-minded to these types of conversations?