We Are All Products Of Our Environments
Updated: Jul 6, 2018
WE ARE ALL PRODUCTS OF OUR ENVIRONMENTS!
If I lived in Birmingham I would adopt a Brummie accent. If I lived in Ireland I will adopt an Irish accent and Irish culture.
Children are products of their environment.
In any establishment there is a main circuit board, all systems operate off of and is linked directly to that main board. The main board serves as the main source that feeds through to the rest of the system. If there is a problem or a virus in the system, it is fixed by going straight to the source.
A child's surroundings, their, environment, what they see, what they hear is the source; and serves as that main board.
A toddler learns to say hello and learns to wave goodbye only after they have heard and seen it being done repeatedly.
A child's behaviour comes as a result of what they have seen and heard; what they have been exposed to repeatedly.
If a child lives in an environment where those around them repeatedly express uncomfortable emotions such as resentment, jealousy, rage and unforgiveness, in an unsafe way, they too WILL LEARN to express and model uncomfortable emotions in a way that is unsafe to them and to others.
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By Rosemary Martin
This is such an interesting analogy. The idea that we're all shaped by the environments we grow up in really resonates, especially the point about children absorbing language and culture so naturally from their surroundings. I do think there's something to the "main circuit board" metaphor too — the systems and values we're exposed to early on tend to feed into everything else. That said, I also wonder how much agency we have in rewiring ourselves later in life. Sometimes stepping outside our original environment is exactly what helps us see it clearly. It reminds me a bit of how a simple game like スイカゲーム works — small inputs and conditions lead to outcomes you might not have predicted, but…