Saturday, September 17, 2011

Sydney Freeman, Masculinity and Femininity

Hofstede’s culture dimensions can help us understand the behavior between masculinity and femininity by explaining to us the emotional roles, success, money, caring, and quality of life that you can differ from a man and woman. The way that masculinity is shown by is the behavior of strength, power, competiveness, boldness, wealth, assertiveness, and accumulation. The reason behind this is because usually masculinity is in men and men have all these characteristics about them. For femininity this behavior is much different they are kind, caring, focused of relationships and the quality of life in the future. This behavior usually happens in women because women usually have to deal with different things then men do which they have to have these types of characteristics about them. These behaviors have been seen from the culture and gender, because gender has to do with being a male of female which deals with the characteristics of femininity and masculinity. This also has to do with culture and race because in different races men and women have different duties and roles that they have to follow with there life style, for example with the Amish people the men work and women clean, cook, and take care of the kids. This shows people that these characteristics are set in masculinity and femininity roles in many different cultures. In conclusion, masculinity and femininity are very important to our society not just because we need men and women to reproduce but so that there is a balance of both these roles in our way of living.

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