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Pink or Blue? How much do we know about gender?  Over the years an impressive amount of investigation and research has been tearing down all that was known about gender identity and its social implications. The difference between gender as social and sex as biological was just the initial point to abandon the binary idea of gender and promote diversity, based in gender as a social construction, a dynamic part of the culture. Nevertheless, these ideas have spread in different ways in current society, a lot of them remain as stereotypes that flourish hate, especially in a country like Chile. The main purpose of this investigation is to discover how chilean population perceive gender stereotypes in present chilean society. The methodology of this work will be based in mixed methods, basically interviews to chilean experts in gender identity but mostly surveys to random people in Santiago de Chile. However, this investigation will be guided by philosopher Judith Butler´s gender theor...

I'm an anthropology student in Universidad de Chile, before I entered this university I studied Literature for a couple years, I was interested in the language, the intrincate parts of its construction and how it was expressed in its history, particularly in literature books. Nevertheless, Anthropology let me investigate and get a lot of knowledge about different new topics I never thought about, like gender, philosophy, history or migration to mention a few of them, and question myself about how much help is needed to make this world a better place. That's the reason I decided to study Anthropology, and now I've been working in some exciting projects, to change society's perspective about itself and promote a new perspective especially to help sexual minorities and immigrants. For example, five months ago I realized with some teachers an investigation about the concepts and perceptions of transgender and transexual people in Santiago, people were asked about their know...