Conditioning occurs all the time in society.

Today, I was just doing Duolingo Irish, and they have this matching words exercise. The English word was NURSE. I couldn’t find BANALTRA, which is what I learned from a very young age as the word for NURSE. There was, however, the world ALTRA, which I matched. Never in my many years of education in the Irish school system was the world ALTRA used for NURSE. It was always BANALTRA. We were being conditioned from a young age that NURSES ARE WOMEN! For those who are not familiar with the Irish language, when the word BAN is in front of a profession, it is a woman in that profession. My tiny, just about 4 year old brain only comprehended the word BANALTRA that I was shown as the name for NURSE, and I kept it for all time until today. By the way, Google Translate still has BANALTRA…. so nurses are only women ……Mad.