What do you feel you are mostly a product of, nature or nurture?

Question

And why do you feel that way?

Answer 1

a bit of both

Answer 2

Definitely nurture. I had great parents. I also have a few cousins on both sides who didn't turn out so well, even though we shared a lot of the same genes. They had terrible nurturing.

Answer 3

Nurture.... either the presence of or lack of helps to form who and how we are.  There are studies that have shown (I can't cite, unfortunately) that when an infant is fed via a feeding tube, but is left in an infant seat and has as minimal contact as possible;  that child at least, may die, at best will grow up to be a human being unable to interact with other human beings.  They were given no tools right from the womb with which to interact with others.  On the other hand, those babies who are given, bottles or b*****s, who are held close, who are given as much "touch" and talk from human beings as possible, gain the means with which to start good interactions with other human beings.  It only begins at birth... but it is an example of how the nurture has an affect.... nature on the other hand would be more or less your physical location; state or weather or how a people do things (such as out in New Orleans as opposed to say Michigan)  etc.  I say.... nurture.

Answer 4

Nurture - I think it is unfortunate that the pendulum has swung in favor of nature-based explanations, and I'll tell you why.  When nature-based arguments hold greater sway, people are more likely to say -' why bother to change anything, we can't control nature anyways?' or 'i'll take a pill to fix that - it's all just brain chemistry anyways.'  In the 1950s and 1960s, when nurture arguments held greater sway, society was more humane (except for the orthodox nature-based people with guns that were fighting with hippies, protesters, etc).

Nature is for the status quo - Nurture is for Revolutionaries and change agents.

Nature seems fixed - except for genetic engineering, etc. Nurture is malleable, changeable

Answer 5

nurture although the term seems overly positive- I was abused by both parents and a policeman plus neglected -  it has had very long reaching effects I feel like Frankensteins monster socially constructed.

Answer 6

nature defiantly, i had no nurturing

Answer 7

Nurture.  I think that nature gave me my basic personality - one that's common on my dad's side of the family - but that nurture has caused me to be very different from how I could be.  It's like the clay for my personality came from my dad, but my mom (and various teachers) are the sculptors of that clay... so all of the traits that make me specifically me come from nurture.

Answer 8

Nature...I wouldn't know nurture if it hugged me, then I would be suspicious.

Oh I feel this way, because my parents sucked at parenting.

Answer 9

definitely nurture.

upbringing, primary socialization, socialization, relations with the people around us shape our personality and behaviour. of course the "nature" part is crucial, and it determines the type of realationships we'll be having with others (i'm thinking beauty, physical traits) but ultimately your becoming is up to you.