Analysis Of My Common-Place Beliefs

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My Common-Place Belief
Tomboy, a noun used to describe girls with an energetic, mischievous personality, and it is usually associated with a negative connotation. During my twelve years of living in my hometown, The people around me all seems to assume that girls are not supposed to act in a way that is considered tomboyish, and as time goes on I also began to slowly accepted this assumption. During those times, through looking at how others describe girls and boys differently in writing, and by observing how my peers behave in certain ways and how they react to tomboy girls, I have formed my common-place belief that girls should behave in a ways that is perceived to be gentle, quiet, and orderly.
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Through the observation during my six years in elementary school I noticed that the boys and girls in my class always behave in their own distinct way. For instance, during times for physical activities, the boys were usually running around, or playing basketball together, whereas the girls were usually sitting on the side of the playground, talking to each other or reading books. The two groups rarely interact with one another. What is more, there was one time where a girl wanted to join the boys to play, however, she was scorned by them for acting like a boy. As view by myself, the difference of behavior between boys and girls can certainly be described with adjectives that have the opposite meaning of each other’s’. This perspective, combined with my overgeneralization at that time, I assumed that the whole society will also not accept girls who have boy’s behaviors just like how my peers responded negatively to the girl who try to play like a boy at the time. In short, the distinct types of activities that my peers enjoy, depends on their gender, and their reaction towards cross-gender behavior made me affirmed my common-place belief on how girls should behave

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