Have you read about “mirror neuron”?

We learn sympathy by mimicking. With practice, you can actually learn sympathy. Simply by copying “pretending to care”, you will eventually become caring.

It is how we learn. We learn by observing and copying.

Try to making your smile and you will feel happier. Eventually you will feel happier for no reason.

Same with sympathy. Try to care about people simply by copying others. You will care about others just by “caring”.

Young children, girls and women learn from their caretakers, sisters and mother’s how to take care of babies. They learn by observing and practicing. As you are mirroring the acts, your neuron actually fire the same signal as if you are taking care the infants.

Just by copying the act of sympathy, your mirror neuron will fire the signal for sympathy. Eventually you will find yourself care for others. The same signal is used in your brain. You don’t need to force yourself.

Same as racism and hatred. If you copy racists, you will become a racist. If you copy hateful behaviors, you will become a hateful person.

Yes and no. It depends on how Americanocentric your question is.

Many collectivistic societies are more conservative than individualistic societies; however, collectivistic societies trend to be less discriminatory to minorities and more forgiving.

What exactly do you mean “progressive”?

Question too vague