genes/upbringing vs. society
A couple of years ago I did exactly one year of a social-educational study, and the teacher asked us this question:
how much of your personality [you think] comes directly from your parents, and how much of it came from society and self-development? In other words, how much of your character was more or less defined even before you were born?
So we all filled in the percentages and came out between 10/90 parents/society and 40/60. We were all about 18-21 years old, and the teacher explained to us that he did the same thing with an adult class (35-60 y/o) and the results there were exactly opposite. It's always kinda stuck in the back of my head and I got curious what you people think of this.
__________________
-Life, liberty and the pursuit of hamburgers.
Last edited by isandro; 07-11-2003 at 04:03 AM..
|