Gender Roles

Gender Roles are a group of rules behavior designed for a specific gender like male or female.  Actually, gender roles exist most in the Middle East countries but I don't think it doesn't happen in Peru.  Since I was a child, I have been able to see both men and women sharing responsibilities in all aspects of their life and children grown up with that concept so, when they become in adults they don't think men are not able to do things that just woman can do it or conversely, but there are exceptions.  Proof of this, some countries have a woman as a president, a position where for long time was just for men.  Then men who are nurses, Flight Attendants  or children's entertainers. But sometimes the motive is not just they want it to do, it could be by neediness.  For example, a few weeks ago, I saw in a Peruvian News, women working building houses.  The reason was because they need to make money to bring at home.
I picked out this question, I think it is a good one:  Someone is talking about their doctor. Do you think their doctor is male or female?  Well, if  I'm talking in English I don't know who could be so, in my case I wonder if is male or female, I don't automatically think the exact gender because in Spanish grammar is different, specially to identify the gender. In Spanish grammar, we use the letter A for female to make the differences between male and female.

Examples: 

Doctor (for male)    Doctora (for female) 

Enfermero (male nurse)     Enfermera (female nurse)

Profesor (male teacher)  Profesora ( female teacher)

See the differences so, we don't have problems to identify genders.  Interesting eh?  Otherwise, Airin and Jose won't let me lie.
To conclude with this post I think, both men and women have the same intelligence and physical abilities, some more than others, and that has already been proven.  Here some video to proof my samples.

 

Flight Attendant Male

 

 Women building houses

This all for now, soon more post!!

And enjoy your looooooong weekend.

Post #5: Halloween

Well this last Halloween was not really fun for me.  First I couldn't go to Halloween Party that day because I had to work, then took me almost three hours to go home when normally take me no more than two hours, and my feet almost frozen because we had windchill that night it was cold, but despite of that I was able to have a free coffee at the Starbucks, so it was not too bad.  But no all the years are bad for me.  In the last four years, me, my friends and their children used to go to the malls or around their houses to ask for candies enjoy watching the exotic costumes people wear.  It is pretty funny see how many people strive to decorate their house as eccentric as they can.  In Peru we don't put too much attention doing that.  We just celebrate in our houses or in some public places but not at all so, it is not common find children wearing costumes on the streets.  I know it is kind a bored.  Halloween is used more in TV programs.  Predictions?, we know about it but we don't believe in those.   In fact, we are divided between two celebrations.  One is Halloween and the other one it is The Day of our Traditional Music "Dia de la Cancion Criolla" we call that.  Those events take place at the same day and the day after is "The Day of the Death" and it is a statutory holiday for us.  That is why is not too strong the Halloween concept in my country.

                               Hilarious video:  A house singing Thriller (Michael Jackson)

                 The Day of our Traditional Music "Dia de la Cancion Criolla"