ABSTRACT
Cultural frames of reference provide both a group identity and an individual identity. Perspectives that a person shares with other people provide a group identity, and a particular combination of cultural perspectives contributes to an individual identity. For dominated groups, the gender issue is sometimes secondary to the issues of racial and cultural discrimination. Social class is also important in dominated cultures, but as was sometimes the case with gender issues, racial and cultural prejudice might be more important. A monocultural and Eurocentric history of the United States focuses on the expansion of Europeans in North America and the development of European American institutions. Gender perspectives vary with ethnic identity, and with monocultural and bicultural perspectives. Attitudes about sexuality vary between cultures with American and European cultures appearing promiscuous to some other cultural traditions. The tensions might also increase when male children are expect to fulfill an idealized cultural identity that reinforces a traditional "macho" role.
