One's personality can be determined through his role in society, his faith in religion, heredity, his family or many other factors. Two passages suggested that birth order plays role in establishing peoples' personalities. If you are the oldest, you tend to imitate parents' behaviors, to be more independent and to take more responsibility as the younger sibling arrives. The middle child, who is relatively more lenient on his parents because he feels less pressure to behave mature than the oldest does. The youngest one has no distinct difference to the middle child, if so, he tends to raise self-reliance to be independent if there is no around to help him out. The only child has close and intense relationship with his parents, which is overly protected. That results in strong feeling of being a child even in his adulthood.
What the passage pointed out about the different birth order affect different personalities was logical and somewhat convincing, however it should not be standardized. To reiterate, the topic should not be generalized since every family has different issues, social backgrounds, and many factors to represent. It might be too limiting to conclude that every eldest child is independent or every only child is incapable of being responsible and independent. In my case, I have an older sister who is capable of doing everything on her own but still needs parents' attention and affection more than I do. She is far from being parental, nor does she takes more responsibility just because she is the oldest. Everyone only takes one birth role, thus it is hard to understand to be in other peoples' shoes. Crossing the lines and determine that each birth role leads to certain personalities are too extreme. Some of the personalities are irrefutable and mostly we end up behaving the way that it mentioned, however it should be agreed to an extent. In other words, personalities are not goods that are listed on the criterion. Everyone could have different ways of thinking and different personalities regardless of their birth role.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you, especially your case about your older sister. I myself is an older sibling, and I also need more care from my parents compared to my younger brother. He tends to be more independent than i am.
That's probably because some other factors like friends have been the defining factor for me and my brother's personalities. In his peer groups, he used to be the eldest (like his school band) which made him mature.
If i must point out an improvement that can be made, it would be related to the structure of the essay; the paragraphs could be further devided to clarify the intro and conclusion. :-) but it was a great essay and i rlly enjoyed reading it!