16/2/2022 Week 7: Response to "Culture and Psychology"
Response to "Culture and Psychology"
When I was reading about Culture and Psychology, I remembered the movie "Antz". This movie starts with an ant named Z, who is with a psychologist and is talking about his life. He feels insignificant and dislikes being a worker. He doesn't enjoy what he does. He wants to achieve his dreams, not those of the colony. And the psychologist makes him feel that he is wrong because he wants to break that paradigm.
In the video, we can see how the larvae are assigned to their future tasks, worker or soldier, without leaving them to grow and decide by themselves what they want to become.
In our real world, in some cultures, it is the same. For example, parents who are doctors, want that their children will be doctors, or if they are family of lawyers, their children will continue that pattern. Since they are born, they see them with the degree on their hand. These children when they are growing and like another career, sometimes feel that if they say "No" the whole family will be against them, and they prefer to sacrifice to reach the dreams of their family. But in some cases, they decide to face their family to follow their own dreams because parents and grandparents have their expectations with them and the next generations, but their expectations aren't the same as their parents.
Today, most parents let their children decide for themselves what they want to become, and this is a great advantage.
"Machismo"
Another thing that is changing is the work of men and women. Before, it was very marked that the men only did men's things and women did women's things or jobs.
It was embarrassing or degradant for men to do feminine occupations, and if women did men's jobs, it was humiliating for men.
Mexico was known as "Machista" which means that women only do what men want them to do because Machistas believe that men are superior to women. Machismo affected the majority of women with low self-esteem because they never decided for themselves, they lived subject to their husbands, fathers, or brothers.
In the '90s, men began to change and break with these paradigms, and those who wanted to change or were obligated to change were called "Mandilones" because they began to do feminine jobs. They were criticized a lot, it was humiliating for the machos.
Nowadays, things are changing, men do what a woman used to do and vice versa, women now work in fields that were never for women.
As teachers or future teachers, we cannot stereotype our students, they all have different qualities and abilities that will improve if we help them develop them. We need to stop making cultural assumptions and help them to adapt to a new culture because if we don't help them this can cause low self-esteem and this will affect lowering their affective filter.
- Machismo is an irrational culturally-created ought self, but how do you see Machismo from your culture?
Hi Lesley, It was interesting to read about the cultural change in your country regarding men and women's work. I enjoyed reading your blog very much.
ReplyDeleteHi Leslie!
ReplyDeleteThings are changing slowly, but it depends a lot on families. I, for example, feel very responsible for the growth of my daughters and the chores in the house. Even when I was working, I made an effort to do all things and I did not neglect anything. I grew up like this and I realize that I have to change and not even affect my daughters.