What cultural elements called your attention? What is similar to and what is different from our Chilean culture?

The thing that most called my attention is the life with out crime that they have, they are very relax in that aspect, for example, I went out with the family for like two hours and we leave the door of the car parking open, it is as if never a crime has been made.

The similar things that we have are more like the normal things, how we eat, learn, and other things.

The differences are many, for example:
   -They have a lot of Asian and Hindu influences, there's a respect for people of other countries.
   -They have a more familiar ambient, at least in my home, they all start watching TV or eating together.
    -In my house there is only one TV,so to watch TV we have to be together, they are more tied in a way.
    -Sports are part of them,especially, Rugby, all of them watch Rugby, if there is a match all of them are watching it, it's like a familiar thing.
    - They drive by the other side, isn't a very important thing but is kind of shocking that change, we are used to our side, so there are high chances of being hit by a car.

What is it to be a New Zealander?

It's awesome in all way to be a New Zealander or Kiwi, that's how they call themselves.

Like a daily routine, for kids/teens is pretty much the same as Chile, wake up, go to school and back home, but the real difference in this routine is that school starts at 8:30 and finish at 15:30 and that make the day longer, in a way.

One of the important thing in their life is sports in general, but the most important one is Rugby, of course, all the family join to watch it, If there's a match they watch it, even the ones they have watch, we went to the stadium to watch a Rugby match and the next week they watch the match again, but on TV, of course.

Another thing is that, at least in my home, there is only one TV so it's like a familiar time to watch TV, after dinner they start watching it.

There is one thing that, at least, I find weird, they eat for lunch a little sandwich, some cookies and something to eat, is a very light lunch compared.

I think, with the time that school and jobs finish, especially in school is more like a “live life don't be minimally exceptional” sort of thing, we are not like all day in the school for like a “study or you'll not get a good life”, for example the difference between poor and rich people is very low. 

Writing task 4

1- How does society affect gendered identity.

    

    Society affect gendered identity, because us, society, tend to say that certain things are for men and other things for women, so we treat and teach the kids like that, so it ends being a thing that we think that's real when it isn't. In other words there exits this society kind of rules that if we don't follow we are weird, it's not "normal".

    For example: Woman wear skirt and men can't wear them, it's weird... But why? Why it's wrong? Why men can't wear them? In Scotland it's like accepted to men wearing skirt and it's weird for us, because we tend to make the relation women-skirt.

2- How is language affected by gendered identity?

 

   I think that language is not affected by gendered identity, neither the other way, because we tend to say that some professions or jobs are for man or women, it's more like a social thing that has been acquired by us.

   For example: If we say policeman we are not saying that man have to be policeman we are saying that man tend to work at that job, same thing we can do we the women with cleaning lady, for example my grandmother has a "cleaning lady" and it's a man, in other words he is a cleaner.