In this picture are my little cousins. The little boy is six years old and the girl is eleven years old. They are brother and sister. A little background on them. You see they are of African descent on the father side, but on the mother side they are black American. You see African people have standard for their female members. The female is to stay in the kitchen at all times. In these pictures you will see the little boy watching TV while the girl has to stay in the kitchen and good and also cleaned the dishes left by her brothers. I used this picture to show that girl are told that they should learn how to cook and clean, that there place is in the kitchen.
2 comments:
Ope’s photo clearly displays her cousins as growing up in “two cultures,” with a major prescription being taught, the girl’s place is in the kitchen while the boy does as he likes. The real trouble here is what this prescription implies about men and women. This tells the children that men are more important, that their time is worth more. What’s worse still is the possible train of thought that could result, if the girl has to always be in the kitchen then why spend time educating her in anything else. We are told that the father is African while the mother Black American, the children are being raised to the cultural standard of the father even though they are living in the culture of the mother. This displays to the children that men should run the family and make the decisions; the implications are that men are smarter and have more power than women, and that women should always be subservient to men.
This photo describes "two cultures" at war. Rudman and Glick state, "according to the gender schema theory, children learn gender schemas from their social environments, but they also willingly adopt and exaggerate distinctions between the sexes. Gender schemas become part of self-identity, influencing children's preferences, attitudes, and behavior as they strive to act in socially appropriate 'masculine' or 'feminine' ways." I think this statement reflects this photo. As shown, the females do all the homemaker things, such as cooking, and the males do as he pleases. The two different cultures, African decent and Black American, tend to be applied to children at such a young age. Even though the female's culture is important, the male's culture is the one that seems to be the prominent culture in the family. It is a very interesting photo because in my culture I was raised to know how to do the homemaker things, but also, men were encouraged to learn those roles as well. I believe that men and women should be held equal on the homemaker responsibilities and that parents should teach their children the "best" of both genders.
Post a Comment