Clearly, children are going to learn to categorize people by gender and other social dimensions—do you think this means that gender typing and other forms of stereotypes are inevitable?
I think it's inevitable because everyone parents their children differently. My husband and I come from similar backgrounds, and we both parent our child different than the way our parents raised us. On top of that, we have our own philosophies when it comes to parenting. in IF research says that gender typing is learned behavior, then EVERY parent would have to raise their child the same way for it to escape society after a few generations. However, I don't think it is learned behavior. Male and female behavior is heavily dictated by our genetics. Adult males are hunters, while adult females are gatherers. Gender identity is dictated by our hormones, which is why trans-gender people take hormone theory to alter their state of being. Acquiring stereotypes about gender, race, ethnicity, etc. is what has allowed us to survive as humans; we seek patterns in people to help protect us from danger. If a black tribes feels threatened by a tribe of Caucasians because of a situation that happened recently, they'll trust white people less (or vice versa).
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