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Old Cherokee Nature Vs Nurture

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In the Old Cherokee Legend, the “evil” and the “good” wolves relate to the nature vs. nurture debate because we are born with both happiness, the “good wolf”, and the bad, the “evil wolf.” Through time one will receive characteristics through both nature and nurture. Nature is where you are born with it, or heredity. Nurture is what and where you were born and raised, or learned. Nature will start in the womb and nurture will start when born. Both nature and nurture can change one within time. When one is born, it is born with both the “good” and “evil.” After getting older you choose which “wolf” to feed through experiences. When I was younger till around my high school time, I constantly fed the “good wolf,” because I never believed in darkness
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