<p>A penny for your thoughts?</p>
<p>Ummm... Not really a thought, but the other day I was watching this show on TLC about this guy who was raised as a girl after a circumcision accident. I don't know what exactly happened in this accident, but apparently it made him so that he would never really look like a guy... if you catch my drift. Anywho, the parents wanted him to have a sex change operation because they'd always raised him as a girl. After a lot of counseling and stuff, he refused the operation and currently lives as a man. So yeah... I think nature won in that case.</p>
<p>I say nature. My teacher told us this story once about how he had a kid when he was 19. He couldn't take care of it so he put him up for adoption. The kid was adopted by a conservative Jewish family in some eastern state. My teacher never saw him again till the kid turned 17. He said that his kid liked the same things he did (sci fi, same authors, stuff like that), talked like him, and had the same hand motions. My teacher was like liberal, and I think he was nonreligious, it didn't seem like he was Christian or anything like that at all.</p>
<p>It's strange, only a few random things seem to be determined by the nurture aspect.</p>
<p>I think it's a combination of the two...</p>
<p>More nature than nurture- but that tiny bit of nurture can overpower the nature in the right environment (if that makes sense outside of my head).</p>
<p>The twin studies have it show both ways- identical twins raised separately, same genes. Some are ridiculously similar, some not so much.</p>
<p>I also think it's a combination of the two, but personality also comes into play. It all depends on what experiences individuals are exposed to, and how the individuals digest the experiences. Inherited emotions (such as proneness to anxiety and intensity of feelings) can obviously determine how a person initially handles a situation, but resulting actions can't be predetermined by genetics.</p>