Nature vs. Nurture
In sociology this week, our class partook in a lesson of how everything you do is a learned trait. Something as simple as chewing your food. It is a trait that has to be learned over time. Michael Jordan wasn't born a star basketball player. He created that persona from a lot of practice, over a long period of time. What really took me over the edge this week was the news stories on several young children who were neglected by their families to which by age 8, most weren't at the age level of a six month old baby. Simple traits like walking, were some of the most difficult demands for some of these children to do. In one of the cases, due to confinement to a small room for such a long period of time, the child not able to see objects far away from them. The neglect of the parent, overal led to the child being near sided, from a medical standpoint. 
Though this man seems to be having a hard time chewing, I assure you this is a trait he did not know how to do when he was born.
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