I’m not asking this from a biology lens, I get that aspect, but more from the sociology/anthropology lens. My question is which culture started using 18 as this hard cutoff, when, and under what reasoning.
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We don’t. At least not we as humanity and not even within a concrete society. So in German the age of majority by law is 18. Unless it’s about you geting persecuted with a criminal law, then you reach adulthood only at 21. Culturally we celebrate the change from kid to adult with 14. That’s the age when it’s usual for your teachers to ask if you want to get formally addressed (we have a formal you and an informal you).
I know in the us the sweet 16 is a thing
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