Nursery rhymes are templates for social knowledge!

in nursery •  2 years ago 

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Some are fairly dark. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is about surviving ingroup-outgroup dynamics as a gifted child by cozying up to those in power in a time of crisis, and how most people are sheep who just go along with the dominant narrative.

And then there's the Itsy Bitsy Spider...

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