Who is in charge of social training in the US these days?

There's an element of truth in every answer so far, even "no one", and "Sesame Street".

The goal at my house, you know, one of those typical "hateful non-culture" homes to which Sushi King refers, is to treat everyone with respect. Some people are weak in some areas, some weak in most areas, and some strong. The Messiah, that is the one who claimed to be the Son of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, said to look after the weak, so that's what we taught the kids.

Social skills and basic manners are necessary to put others at ease and to not offend. Political Correctness, in contrast, is wholly offensive to common sense.

So the final answer is that social training has to occur in the home and in most cases must be stong enough to overcome what is learned in the world.

Hey Sushi King: Other than that one remark, you are correct; well said.

In days past it was primarily the parent's job. In this day, many families (whatever constitutes a family, today) have turned this responsibilities over to the "experts". The experts, of course, are the public schools. The training they get in the public schools of rude behavior, crude language, and lack of self reliance and responsibility, is reinforced by what they see on TV, and other cultural institutions.

This decline is not something new. It has been going on fro generations. When I was a kid, I was embarrassed at the way my friends and classmates acted. I looked at adults and thought, why can't we be more like them?

The generation that came after mine was even worse. It was almost as if these people never really grew up. For the most part, they acted infantile, unable to deal with situations that didn't go their way. They also exhibited a narcissistic attitude as if they were the only people on the planet.

Older people (my own age) began acting that way too. They go to shopping malls, restaurants and even church as if they were going to the beach! They don't seem to understand that there is a time and a place for everything.

Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part, but it almost seems like some of the young kids today are rebelling against this casual attitude, the idea that the world revolves around me, that their parents display. I don't know how this is possible, since nobody today seems to be training kids how to be a civilized person.

Who knows, maybe their really is hope?

Very good question. The goal is so multifaceted in the approaches used that I will just clearly state the goal. To disenfranchise people out of any binding mechanisms, outside of the prevailing institutionalization , where our interactions between each other can be controlled and mediated. Children play video games wire-to-wire from each other's houses rather than going outside. Blacks were brought from Africa and robbed of their language and religion. Whites were persuaded to assimilate with each other into a hateful non-culture that created otherness and an impossible status quo. All these trends are manifest in contemporary issues such as ROTC in public schools, gender separation in private schools, Hurricane Katrina, JENA 6, how we blindly play into the two party system that does us no good, etc....

These are mechanisms of division. Here I am on Y!A talking about instead of yelling from a street corner so everyone can walk or drive by their own insular world. Go out and talk to someone today.

What do you mean by "social training"? Do you mean brainwashing to follow a narrow specific ideology?

Or are you talking about how children should act in public? In that case its up to the parents, but too many of them are irresponsible and pass it off to the schools.

Dem crazy folks at Sesame Street.

All of the above influence the person but ultimately the person is responsible for their own actions.

No one and that is part of the problem.