Everything Creates the World we Inhabit

What are the ways that the influences in our lives create a world that we inhabit?

Everything that is seen or heard, whether we consciously take it in or not, will eventually shape a small part of who we are. Radio can influence what we do and do not listen to, we choose our channels based on our beliefs or music taste. The radio can shape how we think about certain topics, if listening to a talk show, give us new perspectives to a community, state, national, or international crisis or event. Radio talk shows that revolve around politics can influence the listener to lean towards one political party even if strong feelings were already held with the opposite party. The popular talk show in the chicagoland area "Eric and Kathy on the Mix" can change conversation just due to the amount of people who listen to it in the mornings on their way to school or work. People make references to radio all of the time.
People also make references to movies all the time. Movies can influence who someone talks to, if sharing a liking or disliking of a similar movie. It also can influence how people act. After watching a moving documentary people could stop going somewhere or start using something that the documentary revolves around. Same with commercials on television or the previews before a movie at the theatres; someone may buy a product or go see a certain movie due to the advertisement they say.
Parents are one of the sole creators of the world we inhibit. Childhood has been proven by psychologists such as Lorenz, Freud and Erikson to be a pertinent time of our lives. How parents treat a child during the first few years of life can be the reasons why a person acts they way they do in later life. Parents are also the first teachers in life. They teach you morals; do this, but not that. Parents can influence our later decisions as well. When applying to colleges parents can influence where their child should apply even if they say nothing at all. Their child may be inclined to go to their parents alma mater even if the parents never pressure them into applying just due to the fact that parents are great influences in our lives; if a student applying to colleges thinks that their parent is great maybe they think the college they went to helped them turn out to be the person they are now. Also the opposite can be applied to this situation as well; a person applying to colleges may immediately take off the college their parents went to because they don't want to become their parents.