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Have you ever thought about where your beliefs really come from?

Why do we dress the way that we dress, eat the food that we eat, and do the things that we do on a regular basis.

Our ideas about how things are, quote, supposed to be, are embedded in us from our culture.

Culture is defined as the attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors shared by a group of people

and then spread from one generation to the next.

Movies are a great example of generational influence.

The very first movie I ever remember watching, and I just realized this recently, I was around

four years old, was the karate kid. All right, I was at my grandmother's

house. She popped it in on the VHS and I watched that movie and I was riveted. I remember this being

the first movie experience that I ever had. And of course, I know that I saw movies before that,

but I remembered this viscerally because of course I was doing the crane kick like a mofo after that movie was over.

That movie influenced me to want to get into martial arts. As it did for many people, it just

created a movement of interest in karate in various forms of martial

arts. And it was this kind of generational cue, a generational programming, a generational exposure.

And what's interesting about that movie in particular is that it's went on to impact different

generations over the years in different forms. And one just

came out recently and my family actually took me as a surprise for Father's Day and they wouldn't

let me see what it was. I was just like, what's the big deal? Like, you don't got to hide what the

movie is, but I didn't see what it was. It wasn't on the outside of the theater

either. And I was just waiting and just waiting to see what was going to pop up on the screen.

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