Males are different from females, it's ingrained in our DNA. In cultures devoid of Western consumerism there are still divides in mechanical careers and social careers amongst the genders, even when great pains are made to try and make the children gender neutral. Our wants and dreams are in our blood as much as it is in our brain. Some things we will never change.
I'm not talking about Consumerism specifically (well, maybe I was, but as an example).
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a culture where girls and boys are raised in total homogeny. Equality would be easy, but I'm talking girls treated prescisely the same way, pushed towards the same carreer fields, peer pressured into getting the same items/partaking in the same actions, all of that.
It's incredibly difficult to find a natural human settlement untouched by culture since every group of humans since the start of time developed some sort of culture and pretty much all of those found some differentiation between males and females that
makes them girls and boys.
Essentially what I'm saying is that it's kind of impossible to get untainted data on what is a natural difference between male wants and female wants without also imbibing some of the local culture as well. This skews the results and that feeds itself which makes Girl/Boy possible. We can't reliably tell where culture ends and nature begins because nobody exists in that state, TMK.
Can you raise someone into homosexuality, or is it genetic?
Holy thorny question batman.
The answer is probably yes, to an extent, the same way you can raise a homosexual to look, think and act heterosexual. But I doubt either way that it would alter their brain chemistry enough to make them truly of the other side. They'd just learn to fight it off.
They'd probably feel like a recovering drug addict. "Martha, I don't want to talk right now, I'm having
Yaoi cravings again."
"Oh dear, how terrible."
Whether or not that's better or worse than being openly gay depends on religion, left-right wing leanings, and all kinds of other philosophies and opinions people tend to get all in a tizzy over, so I won't say any more on the subject. I don't want to be assaulted by a fundamentalist (also I'm technically not allowed to talk about controversial things since dumb people think I speak for the Air Force when I said nothing of the sort. Because the AF is a giant homogenous group of people who all think and look exactly the same.[/sarcasm] Bleh.)