Indeed, I do not think there is any condition under which natural characteristics can be manifested without nurturing, and no way of nurturing without bringing out natural characteristic's. However, considering many circumstances, I see that environment seems to play a major role in bringing out qualities in people with different genes. In a study made and published in (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), when a set of twins were trained under the same condition of environment, they developed to have different intelligence. The good environmental conditions helps to bring out the natural traits in people, but different environments bring out different traits. The twins grew to have different traits.
In the case of the children from Haiti, the situation will be more complex and combine with much emotional factors as well. Even though the good environmental factors in The United States are to help with with good development, conditions like the lost of the parental love, change in weather, and total change in environment will slow their development. Again, the children will continue to have post traumatic syndromes for some time because they saw their family members die in the earthquake. It will really take sometime before these children can forget what they saw during the earthquake. It is only after they have forgotten what happened, then will they begin to grow well.
Patricia Nartey
http://www,en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature versus nurture
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