Answer — Exercise 5
04 - World culture - Nature or nurture?·Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
- Watch seven people answering the question 'Did your parents treat you / your siblings in a gender-stereotyped way?'. Complete the first column in the table.
- Watch again and complete the second column.
Answer
a)
- Heather: no
- Fauzia: yes
- Monica: yes
- Elliot: yes (but they tried not to)
- Louisa: no (but thought differently later in life)
- Luis: yes
b)
- Eben: his parents expected more of him, but all his sisters looked up to him, even the older ones.
- Heather: her parents raised her to be independent and they both had to do the same chores.
- Fauzia: her brother was allowed to stay out later than her and her sister.
- Monica: her brother used to get away with a lot more, but he was put under a lot of pressure to achieve and she wasn't.
- Elliot: his parents tried to treat them the same, but they tried to protect his sister a bit more.
- Louisa: never felt she was treated differently until she was twenty-five and her parents chose her brother to meet her grandfather in Portugal.
- Luis: he grew up in a typical Spanish family and his mother did everything at home. He didn't learn how to cook an egg or iron a shirt until he left home.