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1. What is “natural” about how you experience gender and human sexuality? What aspects are at least partially shaped by culture? How do other cultures’ beliefs and practices regarding gender and sexuality differ from those commonly found in the United States? Are there any parallels? Does it depend on which U.S. community we are talking about? What about your own beliefs and practices? 2. Reflect on the various ways you have “learned” about gender and sexuality throughout your life. Which influences do you think had the biggest impact? 3. How important is your gender to how you think about yourself, to your “identity” or self-definition, and to your everyday life? Reflect on what it would be like to be a different gender. 4. How important are your “sexuality” and “sexual orientation” to how you think about yourself, to your identity or self-definition? Reflect on what it would be like if you altered your sexual identity or practices. 5. In what ways have your school settings been shaped by and around gender norms? 6. How are anthropologists influenced by gender norms? How has this affected the discipline of anthropology? 1. Something that characterizes my “natural” experience of gender and human sexuality is the ideas portrayed in my culture and the scientific beliefs fostered growing up in school, which included how biological sexuality is categorized into male and female. Nonetheless, societies characterize gender and sexuality differently, like in the United States and Sweden, where the societal environments influence different freedom of gender expression based on cultural acceptance. Regardless, my “natural” experience has always been built on a foundation of respecting others despite what I am taught and see in different environments. 2. Elementary biology classes and general stores influenced my perspective on gender and sexuality. As discussed in my previous response, scientific types characterized my understanding of the difference between genders. General stores like toy and clothing stores further influenced my perspective because of the feminine aspects brands included to differentiate their clothes and toys between girls and boys. 3. My gender is an essential part of my identity, and I embrace that part of my life; however, there are times when I wonder how different it would be to be the other gender, primarily because of what I see my parents let my brothers do such as letting them do things alone. 4. I believe that my sexual orientation has not affected me only because it has remained the same throughout my life; however, it would be different if I altered my sexual identity because of the ideas fostered within my family and culture. 5. In middle and high school, school settings were much more strict on girls to the point where girls in my high school protested the dress codes implemented by our school.

6. Gender norms influence an anthropologist’s perspective because they can analyze how each culture affects one’s identity through traditional beliefs through political, economic, and within a community.

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