We Are Who We Created

"Whether a female develops into a worker or a queen depends not on her genes but on how she is brought up." pg 174. Are we to decide on what we become? The example given by Dawkins explains how it is that a bee develops according to how she is nurtured. Are we the same way, or do we think we turn out to be someway because we were meant to be like that since the beginning. When talking about whether its nature or its nurture, its important to think on how both of them may affect us. One may give us such and such characteristic, and the other might put in some more. When talking about nature, I believe its guided more towards how we are physically, and on how we develop and function. Nurture on the other hand, puts in the rest of the package, including our emotions, way of thinking, and actions. If we are raised in a certain way, we will achieve and become a person that is unique. By raising a person to think about greed and about always trying to beat other people in different things, that person will end up being a totally different person than someone raised with values such as respectfulness and benevolence. A worker bee can become a queen or a worker, raging from what we consider in our society as the top and the bottom of social levels. Do we want to become a worker or a queen? And who is it to decide, the one that nurtures us, or do we also have a significant role in it?

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To understand it I had to put my family and myself in the picture. Since I was small I was always raised with the values my parents introduced into my life. I grew up believing in those values, and would use them whenever they came up,but there comes an age where we begin to gain more conscience of what is happening around us. When I reached this point, I began to modify some of these values for some which I considered would be better. You might think this was because I met other people and therefore got their ideas, but it isn't always the case. There are moments when you simply look around you, and you begin to understand why some things work in a certain way. This way you are actually molding who you become unconsciously. The values inserted into you at the beginning have some effect, but what really matters is what you make of yourself, not what others make of you. So we do make our ourselves what we want to become, and what we want to achieve. The idea that we are made to function in a certain way with which we will always stick to is made just to prevent us from actually deciding our fate (It should be clarified that when I use the word "fate" I intend to consider fate not something that was meant to be in a certain way, but rather a conclusion of the actions we have already committed. ). We therefore can decide and take action in choosing to become a queen or a worker.