In 250-300 words, discuss how Hofstede's cultural dimensions can help us understand one behavior. Be sure to describe the behavior, the culture in which you have seen it, and apply the dimension of culture to your explanation.
The title of your blog post should be your name and the cultural dimension you are discussing. For example: "Ms. Evans, Power Distance."
For this assignment you are not required to comment on others' blog entries, though feel free to add comments if you think they will help us to better understand behavior or cultural dimensions.
-Ms. Evans
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Felicia Lam, masculinity and femininity
ReplyDeleteHofstede's cultural dimensions, such as masculinity and femininity can help us understand ones behavior by distinguishing the emotions and actions between males and females. Examples of differences between femininity and masculinity when it comes to everyday life are things like how much they get paid, they’re success, and they’re role in the family, and so on. Men are more likely to be competitive, assertive, and ambitious, while women are more focused on their relationships and quality of life. Knowing these things helps us understand and prepare ourselves mentally and physically when interacting with the opposite or same sex. To understand masculinity verses femininity is to help better ourselves by knowing what we need, what the opposite sex need, and most importantly, what both sex’s need from each other.
Although masculinity versus femininity sounds right to the point it isn’t. Society today has changed so much and most people would feel offended to be categorized in certain gender roles, saying one gender has to be a certain way because that’s how most people in their gender work. This part of psychology has brought upon a lot of speculation and sexist. There’s also the fact that people in our day have changed and there are now homosexuals who are judged on the way they live their life because society believes they have to act a certain way. Just because they are women doesn’t mean they’re not as competitive, ambitious, and assertive and just because you’re a male doesn’t mean you don’t car about the quality of your life and your relationship. Although all these sound like negatives towards masculinity and femininity, it’s not entirely bad. Things must get worse before they get better and all these problems caused revolutions of all kinds. Women are now doing the jobs men do, homosexuals are now being more excepted in society, and men are able to be more nurturing without being judged, and none of this would have happened if we didn’t work through these problems and stand up for ourselves and others.