Tabula rasa
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Tabula rasa (meaning 'clear tablet') was a philosophical idea by John Locke and others in history. In it when born living beings are supposed to not have mental experience or knowledge, and that everything is learned after they grow. Knowledge is had when someone experiences it in life (nurtured) and the mind is empty at the beginning.
The idea was thought even when Aristotle lived but was forgotten until the 11th century when Avicenna explored it again. [1]
The people who favoured this idea didn't generally agree on most theories that had something innate and was inherent (a quality that is permanent). In psychology, for example, Sigmund Freud thought that what happens around in life changes a person, not so much genetics.
John Locke is most famous for thinking about it. In his theory human minds at birth don't have any 'ways' of handling information coming from the outside world and that's only done when sensory data is received for the first time (through seeing, touching etc.); although being part of a race is something living beings are still born into.
