There is some faculty in inheriting personality traits both through environment as well as genetically, just we’ve never produced a solid explanation as to how this works. An example, cat breeders determine what a breeds personality will be by selecting the fathers behavior, if he is aggressive, they tend to have aggressive babies, smart or dumb, etc.
This seems to have a role, large, but not overriding. If it did, Magnus Anderson would be right, we would just all seek out ourselves, i.e. people very similar to us in breeding or behavior, and the results would be a very similar play on the original.
That be sweet, cause we just go back to feudalism, kill the dumb serfs who never did squat over 20-30 generations, and we would then have a golden race of Superman who weighlift and read philosophy, and sword fight on tropic beaches while reciting poetry.
That shit didn’t happen, we straight up tried that, was a failure. What we actually see is that regions have personality clusters that affect overall society. People in cascadia, for example, from Oregon up to British Columbia, have very high rates of left hemispheric types not found in the rest of the country in that concentration, but are found internationally, like Korea. We could say it is a racial trait in Korea, or inherited by language, but we can’t say this for Oregon. They are generically white for the most part, came from the same westward mix.
Is it education? Maybe, doubt it alone. Is it the terrain? Maybe, but I haven’t seen too much convincing evidence that this happens purely topographically, kinda does with a lot more factors involved in some theories, but I dunno.
I do k ow is that as a general rule, first born children tend to be more introverted and individualistic, statistically, while many other studies show the first child tends to take a median personality between that of both parents.
If we had purely made up 4 tier personality designations of
1234
1 being primary, 2 secondary
Mother being 1234
Father being 4321
First Child 2143
That’s a mix neither mother nor father specialize in.
But you add a kid 3412
Again, not quite like mom or dad, but shifted from first born.
You add another sibling, another shift. Then another.
We know situation ally, middle children are paid less attention, oldest more esteemed and independent, youngest babied the most. Not as a universal rule, but it is plainly common. Child rearing effects this as well.
But we do see family lineages favor introversion more than extroversion, thinkers more than feelers.
There is a epigenetic element involved. I think the manufacture of sperm is effected by testosterone levels, and this determines children. Really rich and successful men have more children, while guys always down on their luck females- I predicted prior to Joker saying the sex of his child it would be female.
But not always. None of the above is a universal rule. Environment such as physical traumatic injury does affect healthy neurachemical levels, the brain and organs compete for space in the body to a degree selfishly if another part is in atrophy.
But there are obvious limits well attested to fundamentally limiting this. People have taken lab rats, cut their rails off, bred them for 40 generations, each time cutting tails off, and each new generation had tails, no side effects. How? I don’t know. I don’t know why we can inherit effects environmentally in one case but not at all in another.
Now, are blacks genetically marked by slavery? Yeah, they were bred to be big fuckers, by default. They were also selected not to be Conan the Barbarian in temperment, only physically. Very few slave uprisings happened in the American South. Think it us rather obvious they made good use of whips, chains, castration and death sentences like working the mines to get rid if the troublesome slaves, while taking a liking to big but obeying slaves, makes absolutely perfect sense. They may of honestly taken a liking to some of them, like we do to animals we like, and maximize their breeding success. They were treated like talking animals in that era.
Could they inherited this coding from that era as a result of breeders selecting for it, instead of epigenetics? Almost certainly that is the case. As bad as blacks have had it in America, it wasn’t that bad at all compared to what was happening in Africa at that time with nascent city states fighting one another for slaves to export, or Europe with is near constant warfare for a thousand years, with constant rape and pillage. Literally rape and pillage, I’m saying literally rape. I’m stumped how southern slavery was worst than this, the general rule for most people around the world was severe loss and trauma. A large portion of women died in childbirth, many parents refused to name their kids till they got older. A human can rationalize a wife or kid dying from disease abstractly is different from being involuntarily sold, but does our hormonal response much differ? Is the trauma much different? Don’t both beat their chests, anthromorphize blame and find solace similarly? Slaves had a large amount of protection as well, war hardly touch them, they were guaranteed food, shelter, immunity mostly from having to fight in battles, etc. Blacks are in large part descended from favored males, the ones who got it the worst didn’t breed.
So I’m doubting it is epigenetics. I’m thinking more just breeding. I note blacks have the same personality spread as anyone else as well. I suspect epigenetics play in this. I think this is just a expression of breeders choosing slaves who were most responsive to conditioned learning via negative reinforcement. I note that BDSM isn’t something blacks usually are known to be into, that’s more the domain of bored white people, so can’t say it’s a wise at all educational method today for them, obviously imagination and other genes play on this. Furthermore, they are every bit as much prone to epigenetic mutation as we are once circumstances and location changes. If the rest of the world was more cruel than this to one another, and don’t show nearly this level of expression, then it must be something that goes away in under 500 years, because 500 years ago, Europe was absolute hell. If we can’t see traces of it now like this in whites, then we know 160 years after the civil war, it really should show evidence of dissolving in many, and many more prior to the end of this century. It can’t stick around forever in just blacks, but nobody else, makes no sense. You have any idea what the Romans did to the ancient world slave wise? That lasted longer. It clearly goes away. Likely just how I described children differing from parents. Sometimes a kid is of the same type or constitution, but usually not. Siblings cite personality differences from kid to kid. How you approach the world likely effects your own epigenetic potential more than your ancestors. Perhaps Kwanzaa is beneficial, or perhaps it is pure whino bullshit, made for people with low self esteem and a dire need for a separate cultural ewuivency via identity and traditions.
I can’t answer any of this absolutely, other than my reasoning it more likely was bred into them, and if it us epigenetics, will be leaving them default within a few more generations. I just find it all rather doubtful, but won’t rule it out, given the unknowns across the board. Yes, evolution isn’t straight cut, simple Dawkins like explanations, such as a selfish gene. We mistake a formulaic reasoning for the phenomena we barely grasp. We kinda get DNA, but I’m doubting our current explanations for everything, including larger ideas like ecosystems, are factually correct. We just mesh ideas together, till they cease being useful, doesn’t occur to us how absurd or poorly thought out till it us too late. We produce very few skeptics these days willing to question universally accepted ironclad theories like evolution. It’s full of holes like Swiss cheese. Doesn’t invalidate it in whole, but I get worried when I see people cultically assept lines of reasobings as all explaining and straight forth, in a world with so much ignorance, disease, and problems. Clearly we haven’t figured it all out yet, if we did, solutions would be so much easier to come by.