Gender Stereotypes In Hong Kong

1. Introduction
Traditional Chinese culture mingling with Time-honored British culture – this is how Hong Kong society has been shaped in terms of societal culture. Such a unique and diverse “Sino-British” culture influences how gender has been stereotyping in our society. Cultural images of gender means a process of customary establishment of mainstream thought throughout the years in the community where we have been living.
The traditional Chinese cultural images of men and women have been respectively perceived as masculine and feminine with regard to the appearance, tone and behaviors ; nonetheless, with the impacts of foreign ideologies, such as gender equality, masculinism and feminism, the people of our society no longer treat gender

Hong Kong thus had been undergoing different sovereignty and developed as an international centre of multiculturalism. The people of this city have been used to accommodating Chinese and foreign cultures and people from various ethnicities is a normal matter to the

They interpret men and women, in terms of appearance, tone and behaviors, with conventional Chinese scope and modern Western purview.
In traditional Chinese aspect, men and women should behave differently to fulfil the social expentations as men and women. Men should be masculine and strong, namely they should be physically taller and stronger than women; they should speak in a deep and low way with confidence; they should also behave gentlely and generously as they are capable to be the “active and superior” role in society. While men should be typically more masculine, women should be more feminine to demonstrate that they are ladylike enough. Being feminie means that women are physically weaker than men; speak in higher but gentle note confidently and meaningfully to demonstrate your wisdom; they should also in a character like being graceful and refined, willing to be a supporting character of men and they should not behave as physically and psychologically powerful as men