What is personality? Personality can be viewed as a few different things, all depending on who ask and how you look …show more content…
I think that it is nurture because I believe that we are all born to be our own person with our own personality, but I think that it is shaped by who we are around, such as parents, peers or culture.(Boundless Psychology, 2016) The reason that I believe this to be true is because in my life my father wasn’t around and our personalities are completely different. Also, my mother was around every day and me and her were completely different I was extraverted and she was introverted and it is still this way. Although, everyday my mom told me right from wrong, taught me how to be a good person, to be kind and show love to everyone that I come into contact with. To this day I still respect those morals because of my personality. Did it come from my mother? Yes, but it was taught and nurtured into me not passed on by her genes. I think you show similar values and traits of personality to your parents because they are the people you are around the most so you tend to act more like them compared to anyone else, but also your culture has a lot to do with who you are as a person. For example; If a couple’s son lives in a household that believes that gay marriage is wrong, but when he moves out he moves into a culture where this is acceptable and sees other sides of the argument and now believes it is okay. This shows that his personality towards gay marriage was changed simply because of where he was and what culture he was in. Although, I believe some