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Generalizing boys and girls is quite a big issue today. Many people think that the color pink should only be represented by girls and blue can only be represented by boys. Parents tend to treat the different genders differently as they are growing up also. They have a tendency to help girls out with more, and make boys do more on their own and let them learn from their mistakes (Geneva, 17). Also, the parents give their girls more positive feedback, and give the boys a sort of "you did well, but you could have done better" type of message. All of this has many effects on the children. Some of them become incompetent and the other seem to benefit greatly from the feedback. A lot of generalizing goes on at the children's school in the classroom also.
In the classroom teachers and instructors are generalizing by separating boys and girls during certain activities on a daily basis. They will do such things like set up spelling bees that are boys versus girls (Bigler 1). Others will do......

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