... part in this symbolic separation of the sexes. Based on this socialization that happens at a very early age, there is a strong impact on the identity of the individual. Color plays a big part in the gender socialization of a young child's life. Girls are dressed in pink clothes that symbolize femininity ... dolls, jewelry, and make-up to play with and boys are given dinosaurs, airplanes, and power rangers. "According to Stoller, labels such as "masculine and feminine" represent gender differences. In effect, gender refers to the various ways that culture ascribes all kinds of behavioral d...

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... to shape her son's character by saying " Boys don't cry." " Boys don't walk like that." "Don't be a sissy.", so he finds himself in a dead end. He starts to interrogate his masculine identity and starts to take the father as a male model. To prove himself to the society that he is a "real man", he starts to scorn and mistreat women. He thinks that ... if he stays away from the girls, he will solve his identity problem and become more dominant like his father, the most crucial and dominant person in his life. Apparently the identity crisis of little boys prevent girls from becoming stron...

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... much different from their gender. A person can be born with girl or boy characteristics, or probably both. But later on in their life they may change their sexual orientation from masculine to feminine or vice versa. Does their role in society change thereafter, or do they have the right to maintain their current position and be able to live with their ... typical woman that her culture expected her to be. Instead she became a well-educated woman who followed her dreams. And just like Sandra did, I too decided to follow my own identity and not the standards of my culture or the ones tha...

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... face difficulties, not to complain, and not to give up" are some of the rules in Citadel's code. In the Citadel a boy is remolded "into the whole man" with his identity "stripped". A place where young men go to grow and develop into a man while not being in fear of exposing any "unmanly" like characteristics to the rest of society. Within the ... society a man is expected to think, act and live in a masculine manner. Showing emotions or sensitivity is considered taboo among the males. In the Citadel a man can act in a manner in which the threat of breaking the public norms is not ... ...

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... are believed to biological group sharing genetically transmitted traits that are defined as important." Ethnicity is defined as "people who share a common historical and cultural heritage and sense of group identity." Sex is defined as "the Biological role that each of us plays, such as in reproduction and nursing." Gender is defined as "learned behaviors involving how we are expected to ... perceived as feminine colors and therefore are placed on the boxes and items that are purchased for young girls. Black and Blue are seen as perceived as colors that are masculine and therefore are p...

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