Gender And Culture Identity

There is a Mexican man that enters with the rest of his family. They eat beans, rice, flour tortillas and etc. The family does there every day routine, the dad wakes up at six- thirty to go to work in his truck. The children go to school and the mother stays at home. The things a person does in their all has a reason which goes all back to culture. Culture is what makes up everyone different from one another. Texts such as “What is Cultural Identity?”, “Where Worlds Collide” and “Two ways to Belong” supports that depending on one’s culture it effects one perspective on the world and others.

My cultural identity is female. To say this is to identify myself as having personal characteristics pertaining to femininity, as oppose to masculinity. Femininity is often synonymous with sensitivity, passiveness, gentleness, nurturing, empathy, and compassion. My cultural identity as a female has influenced several aspects of my life, including family, social development, education, and health. It affects the roles I take on in my family. It affects how I socialize with other people, shaping personal relationships. It influences my education and health. For example, I was raised with the idea that women are caretakers and must be housewife material. As such, I have taken on multiple roles; I am my parents’ housekeeper, my grandparents’ chauffeur, and my cousins’ sitter. Consequently, this caretaker persona extends towards my social life. For example, I become a “mother hen” with my friends. In one particular case, my friend was drunk and incapable of taking care of herself at a party, so I looked after her until she was well enough to go home. As a woman, my caretaker persona has led to healthy relationships, based on communication and nurturance. In regards to education, I am a psychology major. Psychology is a female-dominant field in academia; this is most likely because psychologists often utilize traits common to females (e.g., compassion, sensitivity, empathy), so women tend to gravitate towards this

Gender is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as the state of being male or female. However after taking Psychology of Gender I would have to say I strongly disagree with this. I believe gender is a socio-cultural construct of female and male identity that shapes how individuals live and interpret the world around them. The older I get the more faults I find in my culture and the gender ideology behind it. Growing up Hispanic in the United States has made a huge impact in my life today, and while I believe it has benefitted me personally, research however seems to prove the opposite. Research today proves that even though these beliefs prove to be changing, the influence Hispanic culture has can negatively affect the way both men and women view their own gender roles and identity. Although research supports the idea of reinforcing negative stereotypes related to cultural gender roles. I also believe that these ideas are changing and will continue to evolve in the future.

How we react and understand relationships with other people is a recurring theme in the majority of the subcategories of the Grad @ Grad “loving.” For example, in subgoal 6, it says a graduate at graduation “is alert to the signs of emotional and mental distress in others and follows appropriate referral measures” (JSEA). This, along with many of the other subgoals, explore different areas of the subject. However, subgoal 12 says that one “has begun to appreciate deeper personal friendships, while also learning that not all relationships are profound and long lasting” (JSEA). When it comes to breaking down the individual words of this goal, you start to better understand its purpose and meaning. To do this, we need to break down the goal, word

Just as self concept seemed a vicious circle, where this affects that and that effects this; relational development is the same. Relational development can alter our lives and our communication, while communication issues can alter our relational development and our lives. The relational perspective is a pragmatic one and focuses on the continuance of communication processes through relationships. (Rogers, 2004.) Relationships go through a series of stages. The initial and first encounter to a relationship is called the initiating stage. While in this stage, two people attempt to create favorably impressionable first impressions. In this stage you will look for cues about the other person’s personality, attitude, beliefs, and values so that you can progress the relationship. If the relationship continues and impressions are favorable than the two people move to the second stage, also known as the experimenting stage. In this stage people reveal themselves further but not completely since the stage is still a precarious one. If a common ground and understanding of each other is obtained then the relationship moves to the next stage, the intensifying stage. In this stage shared experiences becomes common and self disclosure is open. The next stage is the integrating stage, this is where the individuals usually become a couple. They have shared interests and attitudes, and sometimes talk or act alike. The other individual becomes like your other half. If things go awry than relationships often shift to the circumscribing stage. This is when couples start to self disclose less and less to the other person. Then comes the stagnating stage. At this point there is no communication and no activity between the two people. Sometimes there is an

Throughout the last few weeks we were talking about inter-culturalism, race, and gender identity. We have had multiple people and discussions about these topics. I have read many articles, heard speakers, and been taught a lot about these topics, but there is always something new that I can learn and always another perspective on the topics. These are topics that have been in the news and talked about a lot in the past few years, especially gender identity.

And that interpersonal communication can be divided among 3 types, inclusion, control, and affection.In addition,interpersonal communication is a bond we make with people, and there are different ways to form this bond. Based on our interpersonal communication the bonds that can be created by proximity, similarity, attractiveness, complementarity, rewards and self-disclosure. When we create some relationship, we also create a stage in which we need to go through during the development of a relationship. Based on Mark Knapp relationship development model that looks at five stages of relationship development. These stages are: initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, and bonding. And this stages are linear, so we have these stages in any relationship, and once in one stage we can not come back. For example, once the trust is lost it is hard come back in low stages until the highest one

As human beings, we rely on categories of differences to make sense of the world around us. We utilize our shared cultural knowledge to categorize ourselves as the self and those around as other in order to coordinate our actions. One of the most common example of such categories of differences is gender. For that very reason, Cecelia L. Ridgewood (2009) defines gender as a primary cultural frame. It not only shapes our interactions and but also how we organize social institutions, “Thus, difference and inequality codetermine each other in our shared gender beliefs, and coordination on the basis of them produces social relations of inequality as well as difference” (Ridgeway 2009:149). These shared gender beliefs are socially constructed

“Who are you?” “What is your identity?” These questions often seem daunting. I always have trouble providing answers to such questions on even the most basic level. This is one of the many reasons I, as a cis-female, can’t even imaging how difficult it often is for someone whose gender assignment and gender identity do not align. Since first learning about gender identity and the gender spectrum, I’ve thought that people should explore all of the “terms” out there until they find one that they are truly comfortable with identifying. However, after reading Kai Minosh’s "Why Non-Natives Appropriating 'Two Spirit' Hurts", I have realized that it is important to consider the history of these terms in one’s decision about how to identify.

Separating religion from culture would be a large failing at understanding the cultural perspective of gender. It is impossible to clearly comprehend why gender roles exist without understanding one of societies largest influences; that being religion. Religion both shapes and is shaped by culture and has everything to do with the roles, rules and place women take in society. To illustrate this point, this paper will examine two of the most influential/largest religions in the world; that of the Islamic faith and the Christian faith, and look at how these religions shaped the status of women within the respective cultures.

Theory explains why as relationships develop, communication moves from less intimate levels to more intimate, more personal levels.

Evolutions in scientific thought have often contributed to overhauls of the human perception and distinction between gender and culture. Consequently, scientific revolutions have also triggered sociopolitical movements, which have had negative and positive connotations on culture and society. This overhaul in scientific thought began in the 19th century with naturalist Charles Darwin and his theory of Darwinism. Darwinism states that animal species continually evolve through the complex processes of natural selection and those most “fit” learn to adapt and survive to their particular environment (darwin-online.org, 2008).

Relationships are like onions, they take time to open up and you have to peel layer by layer to get to the center. Life happens, people come and go and the relationships that are made happen over time. A relationship is built over prolonged exposure to someone and they do not happen over night. When you first meet a person most judge, they look at a person’s appearance, their behavior, and their overall attitude. But as time goes on and you get to know someone on a more personal level you learn whom he or she really is. This idea is called the social penetration theory. Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor established the social penetration theory in 1973. They created this theory to have a better understanding of intimate relationships between two people. The social penetration theory is important to the communication process because it looks at how relationships develop and how over time relationships evolve from where they stared by self-disclosure. With the social penetration theory as the main focus and with the support from communication studies, this paper is assessing the formation of new relationships.

Society has clearly defined boundaries between what is considered to be male or female. The development of an individual’s gender role is formed by interactions with those in close proximity. Society constantly tells us how we should look, act and live based on gender. Family, friends and the media have a tremendous impact on how these roles are formed and the expected behavior of each gender role.

Cultural identity is the basis in which identification is used to express different aspects pertaining to identity and heritage. A person's cultural identity may be created by social organization, as well as traditions and customs within their lives. The two aspects that construct my cultural identity are the frequent chores I must complete every day in order to fulfill my behavioral expectations, and the youth group I attend weekly. These aspects are important to my family and me. Therefore, my identity has an immeasurable effect on my upbringing into this multi-cultural world I live in.