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Question

how do our experiences shape our identity?

Answer 1

We tend to be the sum of our experiences. Though at the same time there is a certain genetic determinancy that occurs as well. (The tendency for addiction to run in a family for example.) But the experience of a child raised in a nuturing, loving environment versus the same child being raised in an abusive environment will have a tremendous effect on the identity of who that child grows up to be. The adult the child grows into will tend to model the behavior that they saw growing up.