The Role Of Human Nature In American Culture

A new born baby is not born with sinful thoughts. Babies are axiomation of purity and innocence . Experiences such as a bad childhood, neglect by parents, abuse, power changes humans into being evil. How someone is nurtured also determines if they will become good or evil. Ego, lust, jealousy, betrayal, failure, and greed are some causes of evil.One is not born evil.

1. How can an understanding of the complexities of culture help us make sense of the day-to-day world which we live? Give an example from your life to illustrate your answer.

Have you thought of someone’s culture as weird? Have you thought that you are completely different from them? If so, what prompts us to make that assumption. Culture is a very good reason for this. So, to what extent does one’s culture inform the way one views others and the world? Culture informs a person on the way others are and the world.

Genetics are the main factor when it comes to humans being inherently “evil”. They play a big part in our life, see as how our genes determine everything about us before we are even born. Before humans are they are selfish and have evil tendencies, they want everything to themselves and will do anything to achieve it. Genes have been proven to be a

No one is born good or evil; it is one's environment and the people they encounter in life which makes them good or evil. A lot of time it is not the individual's fault of the way they are, they might have seen so many bad doings that, they are use to it and might think that it is right. One is not born with a vision of knowing what is wrong and what is right in life, but learns when something happens to

Would these people be considered evil and if so how did they become this way? Were they born this was or was it some sort of external forces that led them to become evil? Well according to Hsun Tao, another Chinese philosopher, humans were born of an evil nature and with some sort of guidance from a teacher could learn to become good. He believed that what is natural to human beings is desire and desire inevitably leads to conflict; since this is evil then so is the nature the results within. Yet referring back to the young child and well example, why would most people do the right thing? Is it because they are taught to be good again is it something that is deeper? However, another Chinese philosopher, Kao Tzu, beleived that human nature is neither inherently good nor inherently evil but rather a "blank slate" that could be conditioned in both directions. When an individual is born he/she has no ideas or preexisting behaviors but that through life experiences and external forces, such as family and friends, that influence ones human nature. Or according to John Locke "the mind at birth is a blank white sheet of paper on which experience writes."

Many people have their own views on humanity. They can either be that humans are essentially good but can become corrupt or that people are just essentially evil. They have their own opinions, some people can tell their perspective on humans in other fashions. If people are essentially good, they how do they become corrupt? Or if are truly evil, then why do some people seem like they are kind people and they can never do such things? To take both of these into account, a person may saw that people are good but deep down have evil within them. People may ask how does the evil within a person come out, the answer to that is that it is thanks to their environment. The environment around a person can undoubtedly draw out the evil within them

People are not essentially good or evil, where they come from, how they were brought up, the things they have experienced and seen, will most likely determine whether that person is good or evil. However, certain situations can change that person's learned good or evil, this is called situationally created good/evil. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the children have been raised through what society would call a good environment. When the children are left on their own with no adult supervision, we see dramatic changes in the children when they have to create their own form of savagery to survive. However, this goes sourly wrong when some of the children get caught up in their desperate situation and start to perceive things on how

Sometimes I question if culture changes who you are. I try to pull up memories of the decisions I make, are they affected by my culture? Here is the response I came up with: Culture sporadically informs how an individual sees the world because, even being from completely different places and raised in contrasting households, people could still have similar views based on what they think of others and not how you are constructed with your culture, however, sometimes affects your perspective in certain occasions in circumstances where you wouldn’t face a community the same if you weren’t from the culture you were built in. This idea is supported by the personal essay by Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America, the essay by Robert Lake, An Indians Father Plea, and also personal experience.

The goodness of mankind has been in question for a very long time, especially whether or not man is inherently good. Although there are many opinions on this matter, evidence points toward one; that humans are inherently evil, but are also able to learn to be good. Man may start out evil, but overtime he can work against this and strive to be good. Man enters the world at birth without knowledge of what is right and what is wrong; he is inherently evil.

Culture has a significant influence on groups of individuals, it “refers to patterns of human activity or the way of life for a society” (Dempsey 160). It provides people with a sense of identity and it is typically associated with a set of values or norms. Values refer to the things that are deemed important in a particular individuals life and norms are the expected way individuals should act in given circumstances. We all have cultural differences which provide us with more diversity in the way we see the world and the way we think.

There have been many investigations conducted regarding if people are inherently good or evil, so there are lots of different theories and possibilities. However, it seems more evident, in my opinion, that humans are naturally good and their life experiences impact how they act later on. First, they could grow up with absent parents or guardians, resulting in them taking on a life of crime or abusing substances, which could cause them to make very negative children. Next, perhaps these children had to deal with an experience in their lives that scarred them emotionally, such as a murder or robbery, making them feel as if evil is the only thing that exists in the world. Finally, sometimes one bad action or choice can become many, so a person does not start off as evil, but may turn away from good.

The concept of whether or not humans are inherently good or evil is as complex and just as regularly debated by philosophers as to whether or not there is an afterlife. Now if we temporarily ignore the grey scale that is moral and immoral and the fluctuations it may have based on individual morals and instead use a generalisation of what is good and bad, (this consisting of the obvious murder, rape etc) we can freely debate if human nature is inherently good or evil. There are some philosophers like Clancy Martin who argue that people are ‘mostly good’ but there are also others like Alan Strudler who are more pessimistic and comeback with “The idea that people are good because they do mostly good things makes sense only on a desperately low

As a baby we aren’t born with culture. The people who are responsible for our socialization are our parents and others who we might associate with…teachers, friends, etc. As a very small child we learn about the culture we were born in as well as our gender roles. Depending on some cultures women for example are taught that they will be homemakers and do a large share of work. In my culture I learned my future role which would be a daughter, friend, sister, a wife in the future possibly, and then maybe a mother. This is also the time we learn what society expects of us; the norms per say. This is also the time in our lives that our personality forms. While our personality has much to do with our upbringing and genes it also is created by the culture we are in. “Research in geographical sciences has shown regional variation on a number of indicators—including public

Human Nature is defined by Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary as "the fundamental dispositions and traits of humans." Throughout the world, however, there are many different groups of people, all with varying personalities and characteristics. One recent article that brought up this issue was What's Really Human? The trouble with student guinea pigs. by Sharon Begley. Begley states that "given the difference in culture between the U.S. and East Asia, no one claims the American way is universal." This suggests that one's environment, not one's nature, shapes one's characteristics and features. This separation of cultures also leads to a different view of good and evil throughout the world; murder is generally bad and charity good, but not everyone may care about murder or think charity necessary. The only way to find human nature may be to look at the time before the first cultures developed. Thomas Hobbes referred to this time as the state of nature, where every man competes for resources, driven on by greed. This greed is considered to be a bad trait by today's society, making human nature apparently evil. I believe that humans are evil in nature and need parameters to be good because of the writings of twentieth century authors, Chinese philosophers between the Qin and Han dynasties, and pre-Enlightenment philosophers.