Differences Between Masculinity And Femininity And Various Beliefs (Essay Sample)

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Doctor Geert Hofstede research gave him an opportunity to understand that there is a varied difference when it comes to people and their culture. Therefore, he came across five different components of cultural diversity that help in distinguishing different cultures from one another (Tarapuez Chamorro, 2016). These cultural dimensions include, power distance, which is, the way power is divided among a community and the extent to which the members that are less powerful agree to the distribution of the power and the equality. Also, there is collectivism-individualism, where the individualism is a single member who can make his/her own decisions as an entity, whereas collectivism is referred to as an entity of more than one individual making decisions and choices together before coming to a conclusion.
Furthermore, masculinity vs. femininity, which are the components used to refer to characteristics, meanings and values that are basically involved with gender. Although, in most of the societies, characteristics and values that are more inclined towards masculinity are more elaborate and initially thought to be more superior as compared to those tied to femininity (Tarapuez Chamorro, 2016). Therefore, a culture that is masculine is made up of roles that are tied to masculinity values and are more drawn towards competition, money, dominance, power and success among others. On the other hand, a feminist community is drawn towards values such as being supportive, caring, and to hold relationships.
Also, there is uncertainty avoidance where individuals or communities solely establish formal ways of conduct in order to avoid the unknown or the unexpected. Moreover, the fifth distinct dimension is long vs. short-term orientation where short term is more focused on the past, mostly tradition, and present considering them more important to a community’s goals whereas long-term orientations is basically focusing on the future making it the only priority and drawing knowledge and lessons from the past (Back Hye Joo and Joo-Hyun Chung, 2014).
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