So we see that a particular learning style is often a combination of culturally-based beliefs, attitudes and values with students’ more general response to the demands of curricula and exams. I think that this helps us a lot to clarify the concept of “cultural learning styles”. For a start, we are now better equipped to face the eternal dilemma between “nature and nurture”: which are more important – personality traits or the influence of culture? Obviously, this question has no clear answer, and the most accurate response is probably “it depends”. Researchers confirm that learning patterns are actually a function of both nature and nurture. The hypothesis is that a learning style preference is inborn, but this possible preference can be helped or hindered by the environment: we have already seen the importance of early socialization within the family, with friends and at school.