Habits Are Culture-Specific

Peoples of different cultures do raise children with certain patterns of behavior that differ from other peoples. And the education may differ not only with the virtues that are produced but also with respect to how it is handled. But this does not justify some sort of moral relativistic claim that these habits are "equal" -- the habits may serve the good of the individuals, or the people, or the state, but that doesn't entail that the ends they satisfy are fulfilled in a proper (or reasonable) way, or that the ends they satisfy are necessarily the right ones. Only now is our generation understanding what happens to children when the father has very little involvement with paideia.