n talking about different generations in terms of changing values and patterns, shows the main difficulty when trying to stereotype a particular culture, which is the concept of development within the culture itself, which leads to constant ongoing changes of the concept of ones culture as well as of the concept of culture itself.However, in most of the counselling literature, culture is generally synonymous with race and ethnicity. Other possible cultural dimensions, such as religion, gender, or social class are usually ignored. Dimensions, such as disability, sexual orientation and age often are addressed apart from culture. Traditionally, cultural, demographic and personal factors have been distinguished from each other, and gender as a demographic factor is associated with specific values, beliefs and assumptions shared by a specific segment of a culture. In a global society, the boundaries of language and geography as criteria for definition of culture are quite weak. However, some authors still speculate and distinguish culture of gender. As Segal and Dasen (1990) claimed that gender differences are enculturated in young children through the process of different socialization, making them part of either mens and females world, which are complex social systems with specific values constituting culture of their own. Gender roles, on the other hand, are claimed to be biologically determined by some authors, such as Pearsons and Bowlby, so those are possible evidence why gender is still examined as a dimension outside culture.Pedersen(1991 cited I Pedersen 1994) presented the possibility of a new generic multicultural theory, a fourth force which goes well together with the psychodynamic, the behavioural and the humanistic explanations of human behaviour. It explains behaviour in terms of individual differences as well as those aspects that are shared across cultures by the human race and that bind persons to one another regardless o...
