Week 4: Nature vs. Nurture

The nature vs. nurture debate is one of the oldest controversies that questions whether our biology or nature is what shapes us or is it life’s experiences or nurture which make us up. According to my understanding and concept of this controversy, I say that it is nurture what shapes and makes us. I think that way because the environment in which a human being develops heavily influences him or her, probably even more than nature. For example, I know many people who have the talent and skill for singing yet their parents don’t even have a single clue about singing or vice versa. That shows that it’s the environment, not heredity, which impacts a person the most. Similarly, my parents and I have very distinct views and habits because they grew up in a different environment and at a different time that I. Therefore, there are the differences because each one of us were influenced by different factor. Although I cannot deny that nature doesn’t have any impact at all, I think that the environment plays a bigger role in the development.  I do agree that traits such as eye color or freckles can pass into the next generation, behaviors and talents, on the contrary, cannot. Therefore, I believe that the environment or nurture is more important because human beings can learn and be taught. For example, it is most likely that a person who receives a good education will learn how to read and write and become educated whereas his parents were illiterate and didn’t know how to read or write.