Culture and Gender in Mil Ops

Question 1

Definition of Culture
SOB 1

Answer 1

the creation, maintenance, and transformation across generations of semi-shared patterns of meaning, sense-making, affiliation, action, and organization

Question 2

12 Cultural Domains
SOB 2)

Answer 2

family and kinship

sex and gender

sustenance and health

religion and spirituality

political and social relations

economics and resources

history and myth

learning and knowledge

technology and material

aesthetics and recreation

time and space

language and communication

Question 3

Relationship between human and national security
SOB 3

Answer 3

human security is the foundation for national security

human security directly impacts national security

understanding populations unique security needs, military personnel are better able to assess and plan for msn risks and opportunities

Question 4

importance of applying a gender perspective
SOB 4

Answer 4

men, women, and children all have different needs, those impact choices

shapes a person’s needs, interests, control of resources, and security

Question 5

Barriers to cultural and gender competence (5 barriers) FEDSM
SOB 5

Answer 5

Ethnocentrism

stereotypes

defense

faulty assumptions

misrepresentation

Question 6

Ethnocentrism (ego)
SOB 5

Answer 6

viewing one’s own culture as best

measuring other cultures by one’s standards

Question 7

stereotypes
SOB 5

Answer 7

set idea people have about what someone or something is like

Question 8

defense
SOB 5

Answer 8

viewing cultural awareness or gender considerations as a threat or an annoyance

nice to haves vs necessary

Question 9

faulty assumptions
SOB 5

Answer 9

resonates as exclusionary vs inclusionary

making assumptions about culture

unintentionally offend a partner nation/ally

Question 10

misrepresentation
SOB 5

Answer 10

gender awareness is often perceived as an effort to achieve quotas or push western initiatives onto our partners without their interest or consent