What’s Around You? How Environments Shape Who We Become | Parsa Shakeri | TEDxYouth@WCHS

By the time I was seven, I had lived in four different states. California, Arizona, Kentucky, and Maryland. My first experience of changing environments was moving to Arizona, going to a school in a small town, which was a big shift coming from a city like San Francisco.Every move put me into a new culture at a new school, making new friends, and living a new lifestyle. But here's what I realized. Environments don't just change us in small ways.They shape who we are. And you don't have to move across the co ...