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...words, his theory "points to a future in which--social classes not only continue but become ever more solidly built on inborn differences." He says that as the social barriers of the past, such as race, religion, nationality, title and inherited wealth, are knocked down by liberal reforms, actual social mobility will be blocked by "innate human differences...
...hunting animals and gathering wild plant foods, "are the least territorial of all human groups." Furthermore, in Africa "there are innumerable situations in which peoples of different ethnic backgrounds live together in the same territory, often exploiting the environment in different ways." In fact, says Alland, territoriality is not inborn but is actually determined by the culture; he notes that most nations need such external reinforcers as the pledge to the flag and draft laws to ensure that national territory will have sufficient defenders...
...cumulative effect has brought about a perceptible change in the usually sunny-natured Italians. "Their genius for adjustment seems to have worn a bit thin," reports TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jim Bell. "Their natural charming cynicism seems increasingly infused with pessimism, and their inborn friendliness diluted by increasing daily tensions...
...very first time, it was like dying. Just to exist at all in the cage calls for some heavy psychic readjustments. Being captured was the first of my fears. It may have been inborn...
Thomas and his colleagues are not yet sure what creates the characteristics, but much evidence suggests that the differences are largely inborn. One argument for this view, they say, is that temperament appears very early, before environment has had much effect. Similar child-rearing approaches do not seem to produce similar children either: one laissez-faire mother may find herself with a difficult child; another, equally permissive, may have an easy offspring. Moreover, family disorganization leads to very mixed emotional problems among the very young. Whatever its origins, temperament needs to be understood early, the investigators believe. Identifying a child...