Nature vs Nature Behavior

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Nature vs Nature Behavior According to our textbook, nurture theory of human behavior indicates that people think and behave in certain ways because they are taught to do so. In my opinion, most of our behavior comes from nurture because we are mostly acting by observing and learning from how the other people do. For instance, when I live in Vietnam, I usually stand very close to the other even I don’t know them very well. Then, when I moved to American, I have learn that I should keep a social distance when interact with people in the public. Another behavior which comes from nature is abuse. Nowadays, media has strong effect on human behavior. Many abusive cases are because of people watching action movie, and try to act as the same what they watch from violent movie. In contrast, Nature can be loosely defined as genetic inheritance or the genetic makeup which a person inherits from both parents at the time of conception and carries throughout life. It is hard to find the behavior which comes from nature since environment has a strong effect on human behavior. However, I think some of sexual orientation such as gay can be consider as nature. Nature theory of human behavior can only apply to this case if this person was born that way. This is one of the most debated issues pertaining to the nature theory pointing to a genetic component to sexual orientation. References James , H. ( 2013). Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach (10Th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Powell, K. (2012, 30). About Genealogy - Learn How to Research Your Family Tree. Nature vs Nurture - How Heredity and Environment Shape Who We Are. Retrieved January 22, 2013, from

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