Individualism is a person’s values and personalities that he or she have picked up over the course of their lives. Ones personality is developed throughout his or her life based on the experiences learn to deal with during their life. There is a big debate over what is more important the genes given to you at birth or the environment that you interact with to become who you are. Amin Maalouf talks about two identical twins being separated at birth; “identical only at the time of their “birth”; as soon as they started to live they would start being different.” (Maalouf 10) This statement about the twins shows how two beings identical at birth can have two different personalities. This means that genes do not have a large effect on the personalities of people; environment is what causes ones personality and individualism.
First we must look at how an individual is created. Us, our selves, me, you , and anyone who is currently alive has their own personality. This personality has been created through many different mediums whether they be through personal conflict where the individual had to overcome a problem, or seeing an event in his or her life where he or she watched a conflict solved and took in that information and knowledge to herself. These events trigger the individual to understand his surroundings and form s new sense of themselves, though most people do not understand that they are doing this. Another influence on ones personality is friends and family’s advice that is given to them; for instance when a child makes a mistake a parent will show them the right way to do the thing that they did wrong so they will have knowledge to use for the future and will not make that mistake. In my opinion the biggest way that people ...