Culture Begins At Home
People hate the culture they are born into because they have no idea how their culture came to be. They have no understanding of the relevance of their existence and their culture. They have zero clue about civilizational progress, what it takes for culture to reach them, or what kind of community it takes to survive generation after generation.
The generation that hates the culture they are born into is likely the one that grew up in a sheltered life. Parents who have gone through intense suffering tend to shield their children from any adversity that the world can throw at them. So the first sympathy they end up cultivating is not for their own family but for their proverbial neighbor who is exaggerating their suffering from the rooftop.
They are whining and crying, blaming all successful people for their miseries. They are telling your kids how privileged they are to be born into a successful family, claiming that their success came at others' expense. They turn the world into a zero-sum environment and present it to your children, who then come to the comfort of the home that you have built with your blood and sweat, only to mock their very existence.
You don't realize it's happening because you don't focus on what your kids are consuming day in and day out. You want to give them freedom, while the world outside wants to poison their minds with a zero-sum defeatist attitude. By the time you realize what's going on, your children have turned woke; worse, your children have turned against you. They don't want your culture, they don't want your civilization, and they don't want you. They are free of all ancestral responsibilities. You started with a child but are left with a bunch of regrets and a lot of questions.
So what should you do to prevent this? Make your children proud of their heritage. No matter how difficult or traumatic you think your background is, your children deserve to know that somebody has put up a shield for them. Educate them about their culture and what it means to them. Teach them history. Teach them art. Take them to museums. Teach them religion.
Before you do that, you need to be prepared for a series of questions your children will ask. When they are young, they are always curious, and curious people don't know what shouldn't be questioned. So they will ask you many questions. To answer those questions, you will need to dive deeper into the things you intend to teach them. While doing so, you too will have many questions. Find answers to those questions. Be well prepared before you teach these things to your children.
You cannot always blame your children for destroying your culture. The fault lies on your shoulders too. Your parents did the hard work of teaching you the pillars of your culture, civilization, and religious ethics. But you didn't bother to pass on those values to your children from a young age. You were too "busy" for those "stupid" questions from your children.
Heritage isn't just about running your business or carrying your name; it's also about carrying the culture forward. Hundreds of your ancestors died and passed on their values to you in the hope that they would live on through those values. In all those cookies your grandma prepared was a way of passing on love and values to you so you'd remember that you deserve love. Your job is to pass on that environment you once loved to your children.
When parents and grandparents wanted to express their love, they often did it through food. That was their love language. When it's your turn to love, you don't even hug them or bother with their questions. Even the cookies are coming from the department store that advertises "just like home." Why aren't the cookies coming from your home? Why are you so lazy that you cannot prepare meals for your children? Why are we so lazy that we cannot pass on those cultural and religious values to our children?
Therein lies the answer to why the next generation doesn't care about culture, why they are turning woke, and why they don't give a damn about the future. Because we never cared about our future and so we never bothered to focus on what it means to have a stake in the future.
If you want kids to carry your legacy, your culture, your civilization forward, learn about your culture to begin with. Interpret it with curiosity. Discover its practical application. Be curious. And then find time to deliver it to your kids. Tell them stories. Teach them the way of good. Teach them why there's godliness in the world. Remind them that they are loved.
So in the future, when you are no longer on this earth, they will remember those fond cookies, those stories you told them, those hugs you gave them while saying you loved them. They will thank God for those moments and then will pass on the same love to their children. It is through love and stories that culture survives.