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Some people believe that our personalities are predetermined as a result of our genes before we are born and there is nothing that can be done to alter our character traits. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Personalities are related to our genes
thus
 cannot be altered,
this
 is a
believe
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belief
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 of some people whereas others think
otherwise
. Character is developed, and
therefore
 it is
natured
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natural
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 as we grow nobody is born by ,
for example
 being apologetic,the environment that one is raised from cultivates good or bad morals.
Lately
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 the young generation have cultivated personalities that they have mostly not learnt from their homes or from parents but by what they see on media platforms,a culture of not respecting the old has been introduced by
this
 generation whereby at one time you will hear them plotting to kill the elderly in pretence they are witches,
these
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there
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is
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are
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 very common in my country in counties of coast and
nyanza
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.
On the other hand
,changing a person's personality is not a walk in the park because most of
this
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 traits are not developed but acquired,there are people who are generally
quite
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quiet
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 and that's a character, and cannot be changed,it's un inborn thing whereas there are those that are acquired because of one reason or the other. In a
nutshell
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 personalities are different to each individual and the determining factor could be the place of birth and growing up.
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