Gender Differences And Similarities

After discussing, the one thing that I think connects us. It is a good time to move on from the interview to the comparative culture portion of the paper, I feel there is a lot that needs to be discussed. One major thing I noticed is that we both struggle a lot with our race, ethnicity, and nationality. The similarity comes in that we both seemed to have difficulty defining our actual ethnicity. For Louis he is struggling with being ‘American’ and Hispanic within that nationality. For me many times I do not know my own ethnicity. I mean I am white, but that is my race. My nationality is American is that my ethnicity or nationality. This leaves me asking what my ethnicity is. Is my ethnicity American I do not know. This is something …show more content…
This largely comes from the fact that we are both in the majority group as males and do not have to think about gender that often (Sensoy). For me it is hard for me check myself, because I have never experience being in a minority group. Luckily, for Louis he has experienced this, so he can build off that to help himself learn to stop this action. I think this make it obvious to me that likely every male is going to struggle with sexism, because we are socialized to think that way. Take Louis, every male I have talk to in our education class, or myself we are all going to struggle with sexism. This I believe is largely because we do not ever have to think about gender or its effects on others or ourselves. Only women ever really have to be aware of the fact that they are women, because they are in the minority group (Sensoy). I think this plays largely on the discussion we had over the book waking up white and finding myself in the story of race by Irving (Irving). In that discussion we realized that many times, we define gender as just male and female and then we assign those labels onto things. In example, football is a male thing and makeup is a female thing. In reality, both are just things, but we have socialized each to have a gender label. I feel I need to be aware of this and actively need to as a teacher …show more content…
A very glaring one being our religious beliefs. I am a Protestant Christian and Louis is Agnostic. This is a very evident difference and not just because we believe different things. It is because we think differently due to this. We have different values and probably different moral codes. However, I think it is important for me to notice that those differences do not give me an excuse to refuse to learn from his views or beliefs. In fact as a teacher, I am called to learn from everyone and I think my personal view on religion in the past has made learning from others difficult for me. That is something I need to address that way I can better learn from my students that are not similar to me and just in general be a better-rounded individual. While Louis and I may have different religious beliefs, we are still capable of growing from each other’s