BayToBay
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You could have fooled me.
What are you getting at, then, with all your talk about how gender roles "serve no purpose" and "have no value," along with your support of the actions to neutralize gender roles in the preschool in the OP?
That there is no great harm in reexamining and questioning gender roles. You guys are flying off the handle because the Swedes are doing something different and that would only make sense if you thought there was something very valuable about gender roles. There does not seem to be anything of that great of value in them to me. Those that are of true value don't need to be supported by gender pronouns, uniforms or stereotypes.
Concerning the learning of foreign languages: Why do you think many parents try to raise their children bi-lingully when they are very young? Past a certain age threshold people generally take to language much less easily, and so have to be taught systematically. Immersion is still better. Young children, however, pick up on languages automatically, through interaction... It is a form of learning, but most of the language is not specifically taught to them. In short, young children and adults learn languages very differently... Young children are much better at it and don't specifically need to be taught all the rules.
Immersion does not mean they are not being taught. It is just a way of teaching.
I've never seen a parent have to specifically teach their child to say "him" when referring to a male and "her" when referring to a female. I've never seen any child corrected on the use of gendered pronouns either, except in the case that the subject's gender is ambiguous in the first place. No one needs a Ph.D in English, or even a high school degree, to raise children that speak fluent English.
I have seen it and so? You don't have to have a degree in the arts to teach them culture either.