M1: Discuss the Nature Nurture debate in relation to an individual

M1: Discuss the Nature Nurture debate in relation to an individual

What is the nature nurture debate: it is one of the oldest debates in psychology history that was used to determine whether the way we end is determined by biological and genetic characteristics which is the nature aspect of the debate or if we are influenced by our environmental surroundings and influences.

For nature a number of factors or characteristic can determine an individual make up ie: height, weight, hair loss,vulnerability to specific illnesses i.e.: breast cancer in women.

For nurture previous experiences which have had an effect on an individual which can usually be a negative or positive experience i.e.: going to prison, getting married, graduating university (etc)

Lupita Nyong’o experienced racism growing up during her time living in Mexico an adolescent. She says: "People would stop and take pictures of us just because we were black,” not only was she in a foreign country but they’re were hardly any black people living in Mexico at the time so it made her feel out of place and uncomfortable. She says most of the time she felt so alone. She describes her coming to terms on loving herself a very painful and devastating experience not only are the media to blame but they don’t exactly make it easy for young girls or aspiring like Lupita herself to be able to love themselves and have that self-confidence in their bodies and feel proud to be however they are..

But it was Lupita’s winning speech that won everybody over. It was how she used her experience on racism to educate young black girls on black beauty  by encouraging them to keep walking with their head held high and be proud of who they are no matter what.

She says: “I thought mattered I was still unbeautiful. And my mother again would say to me you can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t feed you and these words plagued and bothered me; I didn’t really understand them until finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be. And what my mother meant when she said you can’t eat beauty was that you can’t rely on how you look to sustain you.”