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In your opinion, how do you think gender, race, and ethnicity have affected behavior? Provide an example from your life where you have observed people from different ethnic backgrounds or genders behaving differently in the same situation

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Individuals of different ethnicity and ages vary when it comes to behavior.

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Individuals of different ethnicity and ages vary when it comes to behaviour.

gender - men and women differ in the way they deal with a host of situations. An easy example would be that a male response to a stressful situation would be fight or flight. This is a typically, male, aggressive response. A woman's response on the other hand would be to tend and befriend. This is a typically ...

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