The Other Wes Moore Chapter 7-8 epilogue & afterword
Now after reading this book, yes, we are a product of our environment. By our own personal qualities, showing and following the environment influences our values, goals, aspirations and behavior patterns. Since we are social animals, our self-esteem and self-assessment is 100% dependent on comparison with others, and we simply cannot escape this pattern. People are given different expectations by their elders in the family, depending on their environment. The social environment and the environment in which we live are a product of our own and the group's perceptions, and are artificially created by ourselves and the group. To this extent, we are in a relationship with our environment, as creator and creature. Our artificial factors determine the factors of the environment, and the environment changes, as a result of the artificial factors. And on another level, it is that we are living in, and then being influenced by, the environment that w...