Socialization Blog 1

Reflecting on who I am and how I was brought up, I've realized that I am more alike my family than I've realized. It make sense, I guess, because they are the ones who raised me. I am like my family in the sense that we all have the same, sarcastic sense of humor, but when we make jokes about eachother we take it so personally and don't find it funny. We all have similar interests as well. My mom has always loved horses, and so I grew up around them and loving them. I also grew up riding my dad's motorcycle, so I love motorcycles and riding them as well. I think that it would be hard to work against their nature and nurture, because what they are interested and their attitudes are now apart of me as well. Therefore, I'd be working against myeslf. I don't think that it is possible to work against them because they are who I am always surrounded by. Besides my family, I am also very influenced by my three best friends. While I was heavily influenced by my famiy, they just helped me with the building blocks to become who I am. I think that my friends influence me more because I am also with them constantly, whether it be at school or on the weekends. My friends influence me because we are the same age. We have adapted the same interests, styles, and the same stuipid quirky facial expressions that when we make them we look like we have problems. I think that anybody I am constantly around helps me become who I am.