I have a question today

Why does my sister think of Scotland sheep herding as a perfect occupation? Why do other people go to other countries or see other professions and cultures and feel an extreme sense of longing to stay there? The real question though is whether this is a matter of local mental preference, or overall ingrained specialization that formed over the hundreds or thousands of years that our ancestors spent in early specialization of labor. I know that some of mine and my sister's ancestors were shepherds, but I also know that my sister has been unhappy with most occupational prospects her whole life.

This brings me to several possible testable theories.

1. During the time that our ancestors maintained the same societal functions generation after generation, a genetic propensity towards those functions was formed. Making it possible for a person who has spent their whole life in a modern American culture, to maintain those same draws towards a very different culture that an ancestor once kept.

2. During the time that our ancestors maintained themselves in the same society, they also maintained the same geographic location. Physically it is fairly easy to get an idea of the geographic region that a person's ancestors came from. With that there may be another draw that is coded into how our brains develop, that maintains a propensity towards a certain geographic type. This would push the draw away from sheep and towards the scenery itself.

3. These possibilities are not the case, and each of us develops our occupational and geographic dreams or desires independent of our genealogical pasts.

possible experiments to come...