My mother put in great effort in taking me out to eat, making sure we visited museums and traveled abroad, basically exposing me to as much culture as she could.
It may be this enculturation of the macho tough guy being the only desirable image for a man, that's one of the reasons that men are many times more violent and aggressive than women.
I've dragged them to places all over the world, and tried to share my love and knowledge and appreciation of art, and I think it's really rubbed off on them.