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"You are as much a creature of your upbringing as she is of her's."

Of course. But I had a very similar upbringing as she. A middle class family, a religious environment, a nanny whom I loved very much and that was more present in my everyday life than my mother. The only difference is that my parents were older, because I am a fourth child.

You seem to assume that my family had any political involvement because I said the dictatorship affected me. It hadn't. My father didn't like politics at all, because he thought political men were usually dishonest. And my mother was just a religious middle class housewife. They were much less involved in politics than the couple in the film.

But you can't close your eyes to what happen around you, can you? And all the nine years old children I've ever known could understand politics better than that girl, not only me and my children, but also their friends. Particularly females (boys tend to be more hyper at that age).

And you know nothing about my political thoughts, or my children's (that are different from mine).

"Unlike most children, she refuses to accept her parent's political views unquestioningly, especially since they appear to be to her material detriment and she is a material girl, at least for now. She's hightly inquisitive, talkative, and has perhaps a bit of a inborn fascist streak ;). "

1. Unlike most children... I doubt that is unlike most children. Children that are exposed to conflicting views by very loved people (her grandparents and her nanny thought differently from her parents, who also changed their views suddenly - in a quite unrealistic way, I'd say) will try to understand what those views and form an opinion. She is not believably very inquisitive. At her age a very inquisitive child would read magazines and newspapers to know about controversial things. I still remember reading about drugs and politics when I was her age. And I was not the only one. My classmates all had some opinion - largely based on their parents' opinions, it's true, but they didn't just repeat their parents, they had other influences too - press, television. The same with both my daughters and their classmates. And I am a Brazilian person. In France (and I lived there), politics is even more a part of daily life than in Brazil.

Just think of Harry Potter. When he goes to school for the first time, Ron has already a lot to tell about Wizarding World's politics, and Harry is interested and wants to know. They are older, of course, but not much. Only one year and a half, more or less. That's perhaps one of the reasons of the huge success of Harry Potter. The series doesn't dumb down the children and the kids all over the world can relate to that.