Entry 14: How does heritage contribute to characters?

      What is heritage? Here is the definition of heritage form the dictionary: “Heritage is the full range of our inherited traditions, monuments, objects, and culture.  Most important, it is the range of contemporary activities, meanings, and behaviors that we draw from them.” To make the definition simpler, I think heritage is just anything you gain from your family. I usually think of it in the more scientific way, which is anything that pass down to offspring through genes.      

         Lots of things could be part of the heritage, here are some that I can think of on the top of my head: colors-includes anything that has to do with colors physically on your body, ex. Hair color, skin color, eye color. Physical traits- we get almost everyone of our physical traits from our parents, including height, bone structure, size. Talents- the since of talents are generally pass within the family, such as the talent in music, drawing, athletic. Diseases-  sadly some diseases are also pass from generation to generation. Ex. Eye sight, cancer, smoking problem. To me, the talents are probably the most important thing that you can get from all those heritages because it is one of those that you can’t change no mater what.

      My heritage from my parents: I have more of my dad’s physical trait, such as I am tall like my dad. However I also get a big bone structure from my dad, which is a little sad. I also get my moral and believes from my family, one of the most obvious example is that I am a total vegetarian like rest of my family members. Also I think I also receive the interest of biology from my parents since both of them are doctors. I think the moral and believes I get from my family is the most important one and is that one that is going to stay with my forever.