"We are born who we are, our environment has noting to do with it."

... "We are born who we are, our environment has noting to do with it." Over the years there have been many debates as to whether the way we are is decided before or after birth. Sociologists believe that our up bringing and our environment shape the person we are, whereas Biologists believe that the way we are is decided by our genetic structure. But which is right? In some case studies, which we looked at in class, it was very easy to tell which group they supported in others it was not. For example, 'The Portuguese chicken girl.' This girl was born to a mentally unstable rural worker and soon after she was born she was left in the chicken coop. She was fed bits of bread and shared the chicken feed with the fowl. This is all she knew. The neighbours had gossiped for years but had never taken any

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