Its a mans world....or is it?, Chapter 6 Socialization

Ever tried imagining how it would be to live on a deserted island? Try picturing the movie Cast Away as growing up without being socialized in your life. You would slowly start to go crazy being alone because you don't know what it is to interact with others and you only have yourself, although humans adapt to every situation a human alone on an island would end up in a mental hospital. Imagine for example with Hurricane Sandy how people had no internet or cable or transportation and felt like they were in a third world country rushed to places like Starbucks or shopping malls to charge their cellphones and computers etc just so they can feel connected again. In the reading " What does it mean to be Human?: Human Nature, Society, and Culture" By Joel M Charon it states that humans rely on being socialized as apart of growing up and surviving. One quote the reading stated was "Others are important not only for fulfilling our needs, but also for teaching us how to survive."   That basically meaning that if we weren't socialized we wouldn't know how to survive besides our basic survival skills but we wouldn't know how to adapt. That was very interesting to me because once we become "socialized" or "cultured" we are then shunned or made fun of in society for not following the norms such as men who show emotion or show signs of weakness were told they weren't manly or they would get made fun of or be mocked as the video "A Call to Men" showed. I can't deny it in my family if a young boy cried all the time members of my family would complain that they were a cry baby or a mommas boy or that they were too spoiled. Young girls these days are growing up faster and faster and I see it first hand with my younger cousins all the time. The internet being a gateway for loads of information ends up potentially harming the youth these days because of all the information it contains and how easy it is to access this information. Girls are constantly trying to emulate these models, actresses, singers, etc trying to dress look and even act like them. My younger cousins are always talking about how "fat" they are or how they wish they were "18" so they can dress like Kim Kardashian meanwhile these little girls are 11 and 9 years old. I was not surprised to see in the video " Killing Me Softly 4"   by Jean Kilbourne how much advertising does affect us and I always knew it did and how society sexualizes women and tries to perfect women in photos to make them seem flawless.  Women try to emulate these images that are put into our head of what the perfect woman should look like and that should't be the case. Being cultured according to the reading is 

1. A being who is cultural in nature, who inter- prets the world according to what he or she learns in society, and, therefore, a being whose nature is not fixed by biology but who is tremendously diverse.
      If being cultured is apart of being socialization and we are expected to be diverse how can we do this if we are constantly being told how to act and are constantly learning from society they way a man should act which is unemotional, strong and dominant and the way a woman should look which is most of the time thin, light skinned and just damn near perfect!