THE ROLE THE ENVIRONMENT PLAYS IN SHAPING ONE'S BEHAVIOUR

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A person's behaviour is their actions in response to the internal and external activities in their environment, which include physical and emotional interactions. While a person is born with certain behaviours, it is not all inherited or passed down from parent to child; there are other factors that affect the behaviour of a person, these include environmental factors, cultural and religious factors.

I have personal beliefs that a person's behaviour is influenced more by their interactions with their environment and the people around them. We learn by watching others, what they do, how they talk and how they react to situations. A child is not born with their character; they develop it as they grow up.

A child who behaves well does not necessarily have good parents; what the child learns and picks up growing up determines the child's character. The child may have good parents and will come out to be a nuisance to society. Imagine two kids of the same parents, of which the father is a drug addict; these two children grew up to have one become a drunk, while the other was not a drug addict. If every character or behaviour were passed or inherited from the parents, it is expected that both children would become drunkards. Some behaviors that are passed to the children are learnt and not inherited, the child sees his or her parent doing or behaving a certain way and they just copy, this two kids of the drunkards were asked, the one who is not a drunkard said he understood the dangers of drinking and decided not to follow the footsteps of their father, while the other son was asked why he was a drunk and his reply was that he watched his father growing up, and he learnt it from their father.

If behaviours were to be inherited, the world would have been filled with people with terrible people and without good people, because the population of the world would have inherited terrible behaviours from those who were before them. A child has a better understanding of how to live their lives or behave in certain situations from seeing how others behave, and they pick those behaviours to become part of them. It is the experiences we have with life and the world at large that influence our behaviour, and not that we inherit these behaviours from our parents.

I have seen examples of children who have bad parents, parents who are greedy and self-centred, parents who are fraudulent in nature, yet have children that people call saints. We inherit only little from our parent when it comes to behavior but pick up these behaviors during our interactions with the world around us, traits we inherit from our parent includes our skin colour, height, facial features, blood group and some other physical features, but emotions are less likely to be inherited from our parent, this might not be the case in all times, some children get to inherit some emotional patterns from their parent or some unresolved emotional trauma.

Thank you for reading. My name is @rishagamo, and this is my response to the Hive Learners weekly Featured Content Week 190 Episode 03: “BEHAVIOURS”.