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Standards of Gender
Each human group determines its
ideas of “maleness” and “femaleness.”
As you can see from these photos of
four women and four men, standards
of gender are arbitrary and vary from
one culture to another. Yet, in its
ethnocentrism, each group thinks that
its preferences reflect what gender
“really” is. As indicated here, around
the world men and women try to make
themselves appealing by aspiring to
their group’s standards of gender. Mexico Jordan
Kenya Ethiopia
Brazil
China
India
