I believe that it is a little of both nature and nurture. I believe this because if you take two twins of the same gender and raise one in the ghetto and one in the suburbs I believe that they will be different because of their surroundings but they would also be the same basic people that they were meant to be. Based on socialization, they would gain learned traits from their surroundings but they would also have the same underlying personalities that every human is born with. To make it more interesting, I would raise one the United States and one in India and see if their basic personality traits would stay the same.
As far as gender roles go, I like to believe in nurture because I would love to see a change in gender inequalities but I actually know someone who tried to reverse the roles of her children by raising her daughter as her son and her son as her daughter. The interesting outcome of this was that her son was actually conditioned into acting more manly by his peers and her daughter stayed a tom boy. So even if the child's parents try to raise them as the opposite gender, society makes sure that they act the way they are supposed to, at least for boys.
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