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Bad-mannered children become so partly because of their parents' failure to correct them, which may be through having had similar parents themselves. And where this is shown by the child pointing out and ridiculing a stranger, neighbour, schoolchild, or foreigner because of his different or unusual appearance, clothes, and so on, it is also cruel.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5 : Spiritual Refinement > # 138