Many people view personality as something set in stone, inflexible and unyielding, but studies show that most people show changes in extravertedness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness as they age. Depending on the situation, people readily adapt to changing environments and social expectations in order to perform better(open to different interpretations.) Changes in the work place may require workers to adopt more extraverted behaviors in order to establish connections, but in other instances they become less extraverted when social connections can be destructive and maintaining professional un-attachments is better for the self and others. Some social groups may find it more desirable to accept people who are more open politically, religiously, or culturally, while other social groups shy away from this trait. Many times we are forced to change our behaviors in order to move up in life, to improve ourselves. Many times changes in behavior can impact the way we think as well as behave. Most often these changes are impermanent and revert back to "normal", but there are situations in life where changes in behavior and thought patterns correlate with(changed from "results in") permanent changes in one's personality. 

Do you think personality is ingrained, and is established at birth like genetics, or is it always changing and adapting as we are shaped and influenced by our changing environments?
Do you believe that personality changes with behavior, or that behavior alone changes and it is interpreted as changes in personality? 
Are there certain personality traits that are more likely to change than others? 
Is there a certain age where personality is most likely to change? Least likely to change? 
If personality traits change over time, can people proactively work to change their personalities to better fit social requirements, or are personality changes involuntary?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to grow up completely sheltered from the world, constantly taught how and what to think, and never given time to question your own existence?  Do you know how suffocating it would be if everything you did, and said, and thought was controlled and dictated by others?  In worlds ruled by liberal democracies like ours we have no experience with this way of life.  From the time of our conception - or at least from birth- we are viewed as free individuals free from social manipulation.  Our future is ours.  We may be influenced by those we encounter in life, but we've never been controlled.  How would you feel if you lived in a world that made it impossible to follow anything but the whims of the elite, religious, political, or otherwise?  Would you gladly paint the world with one color?  Would you knowingly let your life be dictated by this group knowing fully well that you have no control over it, and that your fate was decided for you?  Would you give up the freedom that allows you to control your own life?  What if you were raised under strict control and were suddenly and irrevocably rewarded social freedom?  How would you then, look upon the structures and institutions that molded you?  

We tend to believe that the majority of people who hold prejudices against race and nationality tend to live in worlds of isolation.  However, many countries with the highest multi-cultural populations, like India or Nigeria, tend to hold the most prejudices.  I noticed that, even though, Hispanics tend to immigrate to America at high rates, they hold the stubborn belief that they are better than foreigners.  These countries that I mentioned before tend to have the highest rates of class conflict.  Luckily, Places like the USA and the EU exist for Jews, Homosexuals, and people of different race and culture.  What do you guys think of this?

P.S. I was studying surveys and mapping from 1998 and 2000 so my information is slightly outdated, but then again, change isn't that drastic when dealing with national statistics. 

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Edmund Burke, British statesman and orator

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Margaret Mead

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Mohammed Ali

Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't even have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve... You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The magnitude of our social problems will require that all citizens and institutions make a commitment to volunteering as a way of life and as a primary opportunity to create needed change.
George Romney, former Michigan governor

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and help them become what they are capable of being.
Goethe

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
Dolores Huerta

Man is a social creature. Many centuries have reared philosophers who questioned the importance of society. Mankind has always possessed a love-hate relationship with the community. While we long to be free, our own individual, we must seek solace in the company of others in order to feel successful in life. Society provides standards for us to live by. It gives all of us a reason to live. That same society, however, is also a source of oppression and corruption. Thoreau argued that society corrupts the individual, while Hobbes argues that society is the only institution that can regulate man. This only proves that one must look both inside himself as well as outside of himself, at society, to truly understand the world and create a life for himself.
"There can be pleasure as well as pain in the solitary life. But if we live only within ourselves, we are less than fully human because humans are made for society with each other. But, again, life in society, like life alone, can be as painful as it can be filled with pleasure." - Charles Lemert