Gender Reflection Paper

Reflection Paper

II. The three topics that I enjoyed learning include, gender roles, gender stratification and culture. One of the three topics that I enjoyed learning is gender, and as defined from my notes, gender is defined as the social characteristics involved the construction of masculine and feminine. I like the concept of gender because it plays a major role in society. Specifically, gender played a role with growing up. I never felt like I was limited to do anything and being a triplet, with two boys, I even felt more powerful and smarter than them. I didn’t feel no different because of my gender. However, as I grew up, there was a defining moment of how gender was played in cleaning and doing inside house work. My dad told my older sister and I to at least clean the spider webs in the restroom. I felt really hurt because I thought, “how come he is asking us to do the cleaning and not the boys and he never told us to clean before, why now?” As I was in high school

I like learning about different types of cultures. I always think if I was born with in a different environment, in a different country, I would have a different set of practices and beliefs. Therefore, I want to embrace all types of cultures since there are no set of beliefs, languages, or customs that are better than the another. For example, I have a friend who is from India, if it wasn’t for meeting her I would still have stereotyped about India and her culture. For example, in India there are multiple languages, which I initially had thought there was just one language spoken, another culture shock was taking my shoes off at the door of her house, I learned that it was a sign of respect. Overall by becoming friends, I now know how little I knew and know about her culture that she practices. In order to learn I have to have an open mind and be respectful to the different types of