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Is Trauma dictated by cultural norms?

It sort of got me thinking, since I have experienced things that some people would feel traumatized from experiencing, but I don’t feel affected or consumed by it in the slightest. 

In Ancient Greece, it was socially acceptable for adult men to have sex with prepubescent boys, it was somewhat a platonic/mentoring sort of thing as far as I can tell. Today, that boy would be traumatized and require therapy. In that culture, why would it traumatize them?

In the Americas pre Columbus, the various Indian tribes had a culture of violence. It was a harsh world. Whether they were sacrificing babies or virgins, or playing football with heads, scalping their enemies, torturing for recreation. Constant intertribal warfare. Slaves, raping. Killing women and children. Obviously some tribes were much more peaceful, they were not a monolith. I have a hard time believing the people raised in that culture were constantly being traumatized and triggered by what they saw, simply because that is what is normal to them. It’s a good thing. 

I have a thought that maybe with this epiphany that it is your mind’s programming that makes you feel trauma and anxiety, not the person that did an action to you. It is the context in which you perceive those actions, that is where the trauma comes from. So in a way, you can take back control, and work on reprogramming your mind. 

Do I sound like a moron?
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I hear that one aspect of a very traumatic event is that it shatters your view of the world. If you think you’re safe, and you get jumped and assualted it fractures your sense of safety. In a similar vein some victims of childhood abuse get relatively desensitized after repeated exposures often abuse because it’s not surprising and in their scheme of the world existing includes being abused.