keannu
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This "on the contrary" is confusing, which I found in other examples as well. It doesn't seem to contradict the whole previous sentence "do not instill..", but the partial part "instaill values...".
What is the criteria to decide it goes against the positive part or negative part of the previous sentence? That's why I even thought it contradicts the further previous part "all tribal...". What do you think?
pr42
ex)The forms of rites of passage have been found by anthropologists in all traditional societies. Van Gennep, who pioneered work on rites of passage, asserted that they accompany every change of place, state, social position and age." ...For example, all tribal cultures that we know about initiate their members into adulthood with such rituals. Yet American culture, which is relatively ritual-poor, lacks any definitive rites of passage to celebrate this transition. It might be argued that reaching the drinking or voting age, getting a driver's license, or graduating from high school marks adulthood in American society. But these events certainly do not instill values in the initiate. On the contrary, they themselves lack most of the identifying marks of passge.
What is the criteria to decide it goes against the positive part or negative part of the previous sentence? That's why I even thought it contradicts the further previous part "all tribal...". What do you think?
pr42
ex)The forms of rites of passage have been found by anthropologists in all traditional societies. Van Gennep, who pioneered work on rites of passage, asserted that they accompany every change of place, state, social position and age." ...For example, all tribal cultures that we know about initiate their members into adulthood with such rituals. Yet American culture, which is relatively ritual-poor, lacks any definitive rites of passage to celebrate this transition. It might be argued that reaching the drinking or voting age, getting a driver's license, or graduating from high school marks adulthood in American society. But these events certainly do not instill values in the initiate. On the contrary, they themselves lack most of the identifying marks of passge.