There, people from wide variety of social and educational backgrounds reacted in highly similar ways.

Apparently the individual had been detached from his prior life, and his reactions to the camp were shaped in standardized manner.

Similarly, it is argued, the slave was stripped of his heritage, so that none of his African background could influence his life in America.

His personality and behavior were shaped exclusively by the unique form of American slavery.
However, if we apply the experiences gained in the Chinese prisoner-of-war camps during the Korean War, some doubts on this point can be raised.

While Americans from a wide variety of social and educational backgrounds behaved with a marked similarity to each other, thereby appearing to prove that their previous experiences were irrelevant to their reactions to the camp, there was, to the contrary, a significant difference between the behavior the American and Turkish prisoners who had both been fighting the Korean War.