Nature & Nurture

So I guess I'm like my family because I have the same sense of humor as my dad, and I keep my things in order just like my mom, but not all the time. I also pretty much listen to the same genres of music as my brother. I'm like my long-time friends mostly by having the same sense of humor as them and having the same interests like music and things to do for fun. I asked my mom about when she thought I had a unique personality, and she explained how I was entertaining and noticed around the age of 2. The thing that I don't want to have that my mom does is when she needs everything to be exact and clean everyday, but I don't think there is anything that my dad does that I don't want to do. If someone were to work against nature and nurture, there is no doubt that he or she would be different because those are what define people and if someone has neither, then he or she will be different. I believe the most influential group to my attitudes and behaviors in life is my peer group. When you are with your friends after awhile, you start to have the same types of jokes and senses of humor. Peer groups also tend to have the same areas of interest too, so I have been shaped a lot by my peer group. The music I listen to which is a pretty wide variety is somewhat shaped by my peer group, but mostly just the hip hop genre. This just goes to show how much nurture can shape a person along with nature in the beginning.

My water

A new example of water for me is the music I listen to which is mostly hip hop and a lot of the American culture today listens to hip hop music. It's influencing me by just giving me some sweet beats and i feel better when I listen to music. I can navigate through the water or my music by acquiring different tastes in music and trying out new music genres or styles. Music keeps changing and the culture usually changes with it to keep the world spinning. Just like now, people use hip hop songs to dance to when before it was disco music pretty much. My values that I embrace are to just go with the flow of this and keep up with music in my culture, but there may be some genres that I won't prefer in the future. I could adjust my values for hip hop and maybe change in the future, but I stick with my tunes for now.

Culture is turning us into infants

In the Stevenson culture, we are infantalized every day. We aren't allowed to go off campus until we are juniors and we can't park until we're seniors. We also don't get a full lunch until we're sophomores because of advisory. If we don't follow the rules, then we get the boot, so there isn't much we can do about it. We're supposed to be getting prepped to be more mature, yet there are certain times when we can't use ipods or phones. I can see if you can't use phones in class but outside of class, what harm could be done.