I often feel that this is the case. If you think rationally like a scientist or philosopher, then you realize that anything you know or believe could be false. You know that the reason to believe or not believe something is logic and evidence, not what a particular person thinks.
In many collectivist and hierarchical cultures, questioning the status quo is not welcomed. It's considered rude and threatening to the social order of society. Arguing with elders is considered disrespectful, so rational inquiry can be difficult. And in some cultures, you are even expected to always agree with elders even on silly topics like whether or not the pizza everyone had for lunch tasted good. The simplified narrative is "Truth comes from elders and societal consensus." Such psychology is not conducive to science. You can't learn and make progress if you're not allowed to ask questions or debate ideas. This might have had some utility in old times when human knowledge was primitive and elders were one of the only sources of information, but in the modern day it just doesn't hold up anymore. The best kind of culture for education and science is one where everyone is viewed as equal individuals. If people are not burdened by antiquated social rules on how to talk interact with arbitrary classes of people, then we're free to debate anything and everything.