Although Darwin may not have entered our lives until high school, we are taught the concept of survival of the fittest at a young age. We gain knowledge of ideas of power and dominance through playground games and social groups in high school. However, people don't think about these ideas about how our society works with just these activities. We develop our understanding of intersectionality and its relationship to power by comparing our circumstances to those of others. In my case, I believe my understanding of our society comes from my experience as a student in Japan. Since I was a child, I have had the privilege of going to Japan every year because of my father's work. While the length of these trips averaged about two weeks, there was a period eleven years ago when I was in Japan for two months. During these two months my mother had decided to enroll me in a Japanese elementary school. Here I would experience school like my mother had and learn a little more Japanese than at home. Surprisingly, what I learned wasn't limited to Until that moment I had never questioned my role as a girl. I accepted heterosexist beliefs that all girls liked boys, and boys liked girls, and that we were associated with being cute and liking cute things. This is probably due to the fact that my role as a girl in North America was never explicitly stated, but only indirectly imposed through attitudes and media. In Japan, these gender roles were a little more explicit. Products, school uniforms and even some activities were more gendered than in Canada. I remember at one point talking about something I thought was wrong, and another classmate telling me that I was different from Japanese girls because I was more outspoken than them, just like Japanese boys..