ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the results of the field research, divided by the relevant Survey Sets. In a highly patriarchal society, such as Kyrgyzstan, the survey answers indicated that women had little control over how and what ethnic identity their children learned. The field research surveys confirm the hypothesis of the dissertation, that ethnicity has a gender component. When ethnicity was controlled by gender, an overwhelming percent of non-Kyrgyz non-Slavic, i.e. ethnic “other” men, provided maternal determinant responses. Adults, primarily, claimed that they had learned about ethnicity in school yet, only a small percentage of the same adults said their children learned about ethnicity in school. As was the lack of knowledge on basic issues of citizenship, governance, and democracy. The women interviewed also understood their ethnicity in a less antagonistic way than men, as the women were less likely to define their ethnicity with adjectives and events that presumed a conflict with “the other.”
