wich is more important in determining how a person behaves,the character they were born with or the environmen
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I am a social-cultural anthropologist and the debate between "nature vs. nurture" will always be a heated topic (well in the anthro circle lol)\n\nI believe, after studying both biology and anthropology, that there is no way to separate the development of a person's character from their environment nor can you separate the environment from a person's character.\n\nWhat we do will affect our environment, and what happens to our environment will affect us. Studies have shown, that indeed, our environment (which constitutes not just physical living quarters but our society also) has a physical affect on our bodies development.\n\n*I would like to add for the "environment only" people's responses that if indeed all that our character was based on environment alone, everyone within the same environment would have the same character. This is logically impossible. We are born with innate differences in character (innate being a very touchy word to use) that make us react differently to life. Such differences can be seen with children who have autism.*\n\nWe, of course, will continuously have an impact on our environment...so to answer your question in 1 sentence:\n\nWe can not develop the character we have without both innate physical traits or our environment present =)
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personality, how they treat the people close to them (family, friends), morals (christian or not, im a believer so thats a big one) after that is how they look and if they treat themselves well. thats kind of stuff
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Until we realise that our 'body' is not who we are, but it is actually the 'soul' that is the real us, we will keep concentrating on improving our appearance as a means to improve ourselves rather than concentrating on improving and nourishing our soul. \n\nPerhaps when we realise that the character of a person is more important than the external appearance, we might be better able to accept the shortcomings in our appearance.
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Well I think that labels are just in our heads and that we purposely try to fit into a steriotype of ourselves subconsiously at some point. Well if you want to know how to tell if someone is a good person or not you just have to get to know them, because there is no other way.
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Character is who you are as evidenced by the choices you make and the way you live your life and interact with people and situations.\n\nReputation is like a poll rating, a consensus of public opinion about you by people who know you or have heard of you or read about you.\n\nThey are not separate from each other, but they also are not a total picture of you as a person.  You can have a good character but have your reputation tarnished by a single mistake or rumor or accident of circumstances.  You can have a bad character, but build a good reputation by hiding your evil intentions and actions from publication.  Sometimes your motivations (linked to your character) are not considered, only your actions, so your reputation is not always accurate.\n\nYou need to decide which is more important to you - the easy way (making choices based on how your reputation will be affected), or the hard way (making choices based on what you think is right, no matter how your reputation may suffer).
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I've always believed that we choose the lives we live before we are born.  We all come here to learn something specific.  A person born with special needs may need to understand what its like to be without or be humiliated.  To succeed in life is to overcome whatever obstacles we can.
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the growth and development of an individual is affected by two distinct factors, nature and nurture, and i suppose you have already heard of these. Nature is primarily concerned with inherited characteristics from one's parents, whereas Nurture deals with a person's environment, and how it shapes his personality. now, culture plays a significant role in the development of a child under the "nurture" dimension.\n\nlanguage, beliefs, values, norms, or even material objects passed from one generation to the next are all indicative of culture, and its significance is profound as it touches every part of our lives. we came into this world without a language, without values, without morals, with no idea of religion, war, money, love, and so on. we processed none of those fundamental orientations we take for granted and yet are so much essential in determining who and what we are. so these beliefs and values are passed on from our parents to us, thus, we are moulded by what our parents have taught us, how we have undergone the socialisation process. this becomes a person's ground or basis for what he considers as essential, or morally and ethically correct. this guides his preferences and desicions.
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Personality is a function which involves the building of one’s personal boundary (some would call it an ego boundary).  This seems to happen at the end of one’s life as an infant and seems to be greatly associated with the learning of language.  Geo-, Socio-factors and internal brain chemistry all seem to have a part.  Mental choices of children seem to be involved in developing the individual personality.  The quality of the nurturing of the child (from any source) seems to allows more and better choices.  One must realize that preacher’s children can become prostitutes and serial killers and uneducated idiots can raise geniuses.  Life is a mystery.
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Not one specific person I could pick, just characteristics. I would like to be more patient, selfless, motivated, kind and thoughtful. But hey if you identify things, at least you can work on them.
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Sincerity, Communication, Attitude, Character, Mentality, and probably the persons Way of Life.
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Character matters - you are right.\nLiberals do not mind character flaws in others so that others don't tell them of THEIR flaws!
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In adoption studies, psychologists studied how much children's IQ was related to their parents. For example, was the biological child's IQ closer to their parent than the adopted child to their new parent? They found that biological children have a closer IQ to their biological parents than do adopted children to their new parent. So that means that nature must have played more of an important role than nurture. However, when the adopted child came from an impoverished environment and was put in a better home with better parents, their IQ increased dramatically, which means that nurture still plays a great role in influencing a child's IQ.\n\nThe types of twins are fraternal or identical.\n\nThe nature vs. Nurture debate is about whether you become the person you are because of (nature) biological factors (meaning you are born with a certain IQ and certain characteristics that you inherited from your parents and cannot change) or because of (nurture) environmental factors such as how your parents raised you, if you were in an abusive or good home, etc.
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Both.  As children we are taught, usually by our parents, their value system.  As we grow we add our own life experiences to this and sort through that to come up with our own value system according to what we believe.  It is us that mainly forms it but it comes from our life experiences, what our parents believed and how we are raised.  IE a victim of abuse will chose to not abuse because of what happened to them.   It is a process that goes on  all throughout our lives and never stops until we die.
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Yes it matters.  Your childhood is what leads you to become the person you are today.  The Child and their views are influenced but the people they grow up with as a peer group and the role models they see in everyday interaction.  Rarely are childhood influences broken with out a major paradigm shift...i.e., trauma.
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morals  character and health
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Parents\nEducation (esp. at early developmental stages)\nFriends\nCommunity/Society\n\nI've listed these because I assume you mean which factors directly shape an individual's ability to develop his or her personality.\n\nIt starts with how an individual is raised by his/her parents or guardians. For instance, if a child's mother & father value theirselves (have self-respect) this will likely pass over to the child.
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They're born with a tendency one way or the other, then choose whether or not to follow it.  It's a combination of nature and nurture.