Essentialism

To me, essentialism is anything that has requirements that make up what they are.  This directly goes back to old times when Gestalt psychologists described that the whole is worth more than the sum of its parts.  Basically certain properties makes things what they are, for example, humans are made of organic matter that walks on two legs and speaks languages.  We can compare this to dogs who walk on four legs and see in black and white with no language.

Experience is something that we have gone through, like playing sports, we are not good at it the first time.  This happens because we cannot predict what is going to happen in the future.  However if this is done a second time then there will be a higher success rate because the person doing the action will have more ability to predict what will happen

I am not sure how to explain genre but in my own definition, i believe that it is how we want to look at things.  Genre could definitely mean a certain perspective because it allows different people to look at things in different ways.  For example, i could look at a situation in a very scientific approach but someone who is very innocent and child like could look at it in a very different way compared to me