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It is in the nature of the atomic elements in the class of noble gases to not do much mixing with other elements.

We too are made up of atomic elements. In our case, it would be the precise combinations of these elements that would tend to make us more or less noble. This concept of "precise combinations of elements" also goes under the term, "genetics."

Regardless, the nurture vs. nature debate is indeed quite a thorny one.