Assignment Takeaway V
In this assignment, I honestly feel like I learned the same thing I did from my last assignment takeaway IV. They were both about comparing other countries and the gender differences that appear in each society and how they may differ if at all. I guess this is related to the previous chapters and assignments that we have been doing as I just mentioned and this applies to an environmental course I took due to the fact that the study was on the environment. This assignment was personally relevant to me I am a woman in America and I am highly concerned about the environment and take these issue’s very seriously. Just like me, my other girl-friends feel the same way I do about the environment and just as the study stated, all of the guys I know do not believe there is an issue with the environment and take all issues lightly.
I picked this picture which says “Be apart of the solution, not the pollution” because the environment is dying and we as humans should come together REGARDLESS of gender and fix what we messed up.
Assignment Takeaway IV
In this assignment, I learned that North America and other countries are not as different as many assumed and said it was. The gender differences that are portrayed in the media closely resemble those that were in the media for India. This topic was a subtopic to me when we were talking about gender roles in the previous chapter. This is personally relevant to me because I am guilty of fallen victim to letting the media determine the things I do sometimes. I always thought that North America had completely different gender roles than other countries but that was not the case. I think that if people try to worry about what makes them happy and try to change the way society has made male and female conform to what everyone else wants rather than what that individual person wants, then everyone will be successful in feeling good about themselves.
I picked this because like I stated, if more people tried to be themselves rather than being who society wants them to be, then the will succeed on overcoming societies norms.
Assignment Takeaway III
For this assignment, I learned that the gender stereotypes that we Americans use, are not really consistent with the gender stereotypes in different parts of the country, such as Spain. Gender stereotypes are used all the time even when it comes to simple things such as cooking. Once again gender stereotypes were discussed in my intro to psychology as well as Social psychology, which I think are closely related to each other in almost every way. This is personally relevant to my life because like I stated before I used gender stereotypes as well as having gender stereotypes used on me. For example, I went to the grocery store to buy dinner for my roommates and me, and the lady checking me out said, “You must be cooking dinner for your man huh.” I politely answered, “Nope just for me and my roommates”. She assumed just because I was making dinner that I was cooking for a man which was not the case.
I picked this image because it just relates to what happened to me at the store. You don’t have to have a man to cook for. You don’t need a man to define you either!
Assignment Takeaway II
In this assignment, I learned things about myself that I thought I already knew but in a better perspective. I also learned that people’s personalities a pre-determined in a way that I cannot quite grip yet. I learned about the OCEAN 5 in a previous class which was Social Psychology that I actually took last semester. I was given a test to take but it was not the same one, so I did not get all the information I got when taking this test. This related to my life because once I got my results, I was very shocked to find out that a simple test can tell my entire personality. For example, I am told that I have always been a sensitive person, even as a baby; I always thought of myself as the opposite in some ways but after reading what it stated, I knew for a fact that was who I am.
I picked this picture because I HATE being yelled at with a passion because I feel like there is no need to be so aggressive. Every time my mom would raise her voice at me I would just burst out crying and this meme is basically me in one picture.