NATURE VERSUS NURTURE ARGUMENT

There have been persistent argument about nature versus nurture.
For most of the 20th century, psychologists and sociologists believed that most of our behavior and preferences were learnt from our social conditioning and our environment.

Can this argument hold water? let's find out.

Life Story of a Family

Matilda gave birth to twins, a girl and a boy. She wrapped Joyce in a pink blanket and Jack in a blue one. Relatives brought gifts, soft and fluffy toys to Joyce and a toy football and a tiny football jersey for Jack. Everyone cooed and gooed and talked softly to Joyce, telling her she was pretty and gorgeous, but it was only the female relatives who picked her up and cuddled her. When the male relatives visited, they focused mostly on Jack, speaking noticeably louder, poking his belly, bouncing him up and down and proposing a future as a football player.
Such a scenario will be familiar to everyone. It does however raise a question: Is this behavior caused by our biology or is it learned behavior that is perpetuated from generation to generation? #### is it nature or nurture ####?

Nurturing is a learned phenomenon

It is adaptive to mothers, whether they are human or monkey, usually do a superb job of nurturing their infants.

Nature is Scientific

Scientists, on the other hand, have argued that biology, chemistry and hormones are largely responsible. Since 1990 there have been overwhelming evidence to support this scientific view that we are born with much of our brain software already in place. The fact that men were usually the hunters and women the nurturers even today dictates our behavior, beliefs and priorities. A major study at Harvard University shows that we, not only behave differently towards boy and girl babies, we also use different words. To baby girl, we softly say:
you are so sweet, you are a little sweetheart, you are a beautiful little girl, and to baby boys we raise our voices and say, hey, big boy and wow you are so strong

Exacerbation

Yet giving Barbie Dolls to girls and Action Men to boys does not create their behavior; it simply exacerbates it. Simply, the Harvard study found that adults' distinctive behavior towards baby girls and boys only accentuated the differences that already exists. When you put a duck on a pond, it starts to swim. Look beneath the surface, and you will see the duck has webbed feet. If you analyse it's brain you will discover that it evolved with swimming module already in place. The pond is just where the dock happens to be at the time and it is not causing it's behavior.

Conclusion

Research shows that we are a product of our biology than the victims of social stereotypes. No more no less. Our social environment only exacerbates what is already inbuilt in us.