this poll sort of derives from rafflesia's poll about sins and my topic about honesty.
We are all born innocent, right? So what happens? Why do we get twisted while growing up?
What affects the most our personality? What creates it, shapes it...?
What has the most influence on us?
Where do we pick all the bad (or good, why not!) things in life?
Family? Society? Or do we create ourselves? Or all together...

Family for the main part, especially till you are young.
Then everything you live build your personnality in a way or in an other.

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Vous n'êtes pas obligés de me croire... mais faites comme si...

I voted for the all above, & more!!!!
i think, if a person who's not affected by his/her family, society...THE WORLD araound him/her in general, this person would be considered "dead" rather than alive. I mean it's a relationship of exchange!! Your surounding environment refflects on you & at the same time you refflect it in one way or an other...& that's wot builds our personalities!!
 
Nice thread Feary

I can't deny that family has influence on someone's personality... if the family is stable and happy this will probably affect a child, and of course if family isn't stable and happy this will probably affect the child too... but then again, there are many examples when child grown in a good and stable family turns out bad later in the adolescent age...
The family builds the basis of someone's personality, but the society (school, friends, colleagues...) and that person's own powers lay the final brick.

I vote for "all of the above" haha

The Family is very important, they gave me a good education.
Society, we want it or not, influences on our personality.

But taking the good things from "all of the above" haha, We build ourselves a personality, some people take the bad things unfortunately.

But the family is the 1st thing, and is escencial.

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I used to be a counselor and so I've gotten to know the personality well. In my opinion it requires numerous things to shape a personality.

Genetics. Plays a bit of a role in the formative years. In particular any possible inherited disorders which affect personality.

Environment: Family, friends, cultural exposure. How you were raised. Your background. Religion or lack thereof.

Age: Although much of our personality changes as we mature it is ever an ongoing process and change does occur.

Experience: Simply put. Comes with age. Our experiences play a huge role in our personalities. Adversity and painful experiences can build character and bring out the best in us. Or it can bring out the worst. A child who has been molested might turn out to be a bitter and unhappy person. Or they might become a stronger person from their experience.

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"Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and I am content."

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

I voted for "all of the above"
I think that our personality is affected for all the eviroments that surround us.
I´m agree with DeadLight.

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yes-all of the above-i think -im agree with deathbringer-everything a surround us -affect us -all in this world-affect us

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I avenge with darkness, the blood is the life,The Orden Of The Dragon,
I feed on human life

I voted for we are our own builder, since I know many people that runed their lives only by themselves, they built their personality by themselves, even though they had all predispositions for normal life, great families and nice surrounding.

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its what you learn in life that effects what or who you become as a human being, if you learn your lessons, you have a good chance of being a decent or good person (one can never hope for perfectio since it doesnt exist) and if you dont learn your lessons in life well pick up a gun, target a school or something because you have a good chance of being a psycho, not saying its definate, just shit happens

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it was not my choice, it was not my Voice that left you in the lonely void, you called for what I had to say but ignored my words now you must Live with the burns, had it been my way, you been healed in my arms but I dont control you but r