Human Nurture

The experiences in our lives shape us as human beings. We have seen this through the cases of Genie and Danielle. If you think about it to yourself though, wouldn't one agree without the evidence of these cases? A baby is not racist at birth, he learns to discriminate through the actions of his parents. Or even examples of how to chew. This week Sal told us of how even at table during lunch, his daughter would mock him chewing his sandwich by making the same movement in eating her own mashed up food. Thinking back to stories of my own life, that's how I know i learned to speak. Would anyone of us had uttered the words of "mama" and "daddy" had they not been said over and over to us as a child. How about our own name? We have heard it in our direction since it was given to us, thus we know our own name. After learning about these cases and reflecting them upon my own life, it is hard to imagine what life would be life had I never learned these things. One never stops to think at how something so small can provide the basis of who you become for the rest of your life.