re: #202 Killgore Trout

Because there are often cultural differences in everyday things we take for granted. It’s a topic I have some interest in. I find it fascinating.
“This Is My Family”: Differences in Children’s Family Drawings Across Cultures

I can see how things like houses, forms of transportation, clothing, food, and family dynamics affecting creative expression, such as described in the article:

The family drawings varied with cultural context and the respective orientation toward autonomy and relatedness, specifically in regard to the number and position of family members, the depicted absolute and relative size of family members, the details of facial features, and the emotional expression. Additionally, the positioning and spatial arrangement of family members on the paper can be linked to the children’s familiarity with external frames of reference in drawings.

But a snowman is a very basic shape modeled after the human from, which is the same everywhere—like a stick figure. If I ask a kid in Iran to draw a garden, it’s probably gonna look a lot different than if I ask an American kid to draw one. If I asked both kids to draw a flower I’d expect them to be very similar (unless one kid was especially creative). Ditto for requests to draw a cat, dog, etc.