Posted by Jay on November 4, 2006, at 14:11:49
In reply to What do you think, posted by Declan on November 4, 2006, at 13:33:57
> of the idea that people with a shakey (or >whatever) sense of identity have very >pronounced personal styles? And if there's any >truth in that, why is it so?
Well, I think I touched on this a bit bellow Declan. Culture plays a large part of how we perceive others. The 'pronounced' personality styles are written off as eccentric.
Our culture has a problem with accepting eccentric personalities, and you know where that isolation leads to. It may begin with a "shaky"/eccentric personality transferred partially genetically. Again, the looping feedback continues through life. Usually a "pronounced" characteristic is only simply something that is viewed as, again, eccentric, different, etc...hence it "sticks out". So we have a nature/nurture thing going on here.Jay :-)
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