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Nature V. Nurture The debate over what shapes the way a child behaves and conducts themselves has been going on for what seems like forever. Do our genes, or our environment mold our personalities? I believe a person's environment they grew up in, and their current environment affects their personality more than heredity. There are a variety of environments that will affect the personality. These environments are; family, physical, cultural, and social. These factors do a great deal to shape a child's way of life, and I will attempt to validate my opinion via this paper. In accordance with the notes we took in class, the physical environment entails the conditions a child would grow up around. If you took a child, of good stock and heritage, and tossed them into a delapidated situation...that child will grow up much differently than if they had the pampered lifestyle of their parents. They will grow up knowing poverty, and become hardened, having to fight day in and day out for surival. Children in these situations often turn to a life of crime to live. In a ghetto situation, there is no room for the weak hearted individual, who expects everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Children who grow up in more posh surroundings, like the suburbs, tend to have many more opportunities for sucess than their counterparts in the urban environment. They often have a better education, and more inspiration to excel. They, typically, also have nicer homes, with more luxuries.
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