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Everybody hates a tourist.
I think if you pull your weight, you would earn some measure of respect.
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Why Kids Love Garbage Trucks
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Such evolutionary just-so stories can be used to explain anything and there is no way to falsify them. However, just applying common sense: Wouldn't it be more beneficial for their survival if kids were programmed to stay away from megafauna? It might eat them or step on them.
How do you know how to stay away from something if you don’t understand it? It’s big enough that it can come to you in the middle of you doing something else. Best to know what habits of its might make that happen. That, and the megafauna that have existed alongside humans have pretty much always been herbivorous mammals. Mammals seem to be universally capable of recognizing which members of another mammal species ar…
So kids can instinctively discern between a large herbivore and a large carnivore, but cannot instinctively discern between a large herbivores and a garbage truck?
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You'll notice that kids don't get as excited about other things that are just as big, or bigger, though. For example, my son can barely even be bothered to look up at 18 wheelers. He sees them as common and boring. But a garbage truck? It's loud and interesting. It does stuff with its tusks. Honestly, garbage trucks are still fascinating even to me, as an adult.
There is also the rarity. Garbage comes once a week. He may not even see it every week. It is true that he gets to see it "in action" so that helps. He probably sees 100 18 wheelers everyday. They are just different cars and nothing special.
Very true! They are rare, and also loud so they draw attention.
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Nope. Historically, pink was considered a masculine color, because it's a shade of red. It was like this for centuries, until the 20th century in western nations.
>because it's a shade of red. // Not quite sure what your nope refers to, but you release that's not a reason. All you've done is shift the question from "why is pink for boys" to "why is red for boys" and still haven't countered any of my observations, particularly that it might be "pink" was for boys because of social conditioning in the past.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. I'm just pointing out that this whole thing is entirely cultural, and that it's changed very, very recently (within the last century or so). There's no underlying biological reason for pink to appeal to little girls; it's just a cultural artifact. If little girls were dressed in lime green all the time from birth and the culture militantly pushed the idea that "lime green is only for girls!", then little girls would want lime green toys and clothes.
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#166This didn't address my favorite theory: that (some) kids are programmed to learn as much as they can about the nearby megafauna, and in this world the closest approximation is these big garbage/fire/construction vehicles.
Would explain why most young kids go through a dinosaur phase too!
Or adults like me, upon learning about all the advancements in paleontology in the last 30 years. But that might be more "fascination with the unknown" than sheer size... which I guess is another human evolutionarily advantageous trait.