Perception of various identities models in the Czech Republic

In terms of gender identity, I think women and men are almost equal in our country. We have many "self-made women" who show that we are as good as men even in doing business and "men things". However there is apparently still a difference in salaries according to gender, people say. It`s hard to find out because we don`t speak much about our incomes, we pretend that the conditions are equal but I heard some stories proving the opposite. It was very interesting note from Rossy who mentioned than in the Czech Republic, women have just one surname - given by the father. We don`t take mother`s surname and when we marry, we usually overtake our husband`s surname. This could be a sign of men-dominance in our country and probably it really is - a tradition revealing from values of our society, however I don`t feel that way. I don`t feel oppressed by men because I`m having my father`s name, and I probably will overtake my husband`s surname when I marry and I will be happy to do that, because for me it`s an honour, a sign of love - I`ll be happy that there is someone who wants to connect his life with mine "forever" by having the same surname. And it also makes sense in terms of logic - when there is a new marriage, there is soon gonna be a new family, so you have to have 1 name, under which the family will be united.
But yes, men might be still a step ahead women in Czech hierarchy.
Besides these two main genders, we don`t talk much about transgenders in the Czech Republic. Me myself, I don`t know any (but I know some transvestites) and about intersexuals I`ve heard in the last lesson of Intercultural Communication for the first time. But it`s probably truth that society itself wants to remain "bi-gender", may be because we are scared of uncertainty - of our lack of knowledge about intersexual people.

Sexual identity is in the Czech Republic very interesting topic now. We are experiencing increasing number of homosexuals, mostly homosexual men. In my opinion almost every third man is gay and almost every handsome man is homosexual. That makes me worry a little because if this trend continues, humans/or at least Czechs will be in extinction. Nowadays many high posts in companies are occupied by gay men (or Slovaks .. or combination...) and we say "a pink Mafia" runs Prague, because we believe they intentionally want to stay together so they help each other to get to the highest posts, and discriminate heterosexuals. But this is just in term of fields/areas I`m living/working in - communication, media, business, politics, dancing. It`s probably a very different situation in terms of craft or engineering professions.
The worst position in this hierarchy is in my opinion settled by bisexuals and transsexuals because none of the dominant group understands them. :)

Concerning age I must admit, that there is strong discrimination of old people in our country, when comes to politics and elections. The old people tend to vote communists for some reason and we all are affraid that they could bring them back. You know, there are more and more older people so their vote is very powerfull and when going to the history - the reason why we experienced a communism regime was that we ourselves actually voted for them... Also there is opinion among adults and young people that we earn our money for their pension and we already know that there will be no money for our pension when we get old. So there is this kind of animosity among us.
On the other hand, comparing to Portugal, we treat also our children bad way. We don`t treat them as equal ones, but rather as a burden or just as those who need to listen to our commands - there is usually a strong hierarchy, so the best position in Czech Republic has been occupied by "adults".

Last identity I would like to comment is the racial/ethnical identity. We say, Czechs are xenophobic and racists but there is many people different races and nationalities living in Prague or other cities freely and happily. The issue is everytime only concerning economy - "immigrants take our jobs"-beliefs and this kind of stuff. We are very hostile to Ukrainian, Russian and Slovak people but they still belong to our prevailing caucasian race. However we admire Asian people at some point - we admire their hard-workingness/diligence. But there is one race/nation we really don`t like - the gypsies. On one hand most Czech people don`t agree with discrimination of black people in United States but just little number of these ones realizes, that we act completely the same towards our gypsies. Romany nation is apparently having hard times in every country. I`m sorry for them, I wouldn`t like to be in their position. But they also sometimes don`t behave well to us, of course that`s also true. When I think about it, there might be some common animosity against nomadic nations by the society. It`s not just gypsies but also the Sami people, etc. May be we like to settle down, to have our region/territory and we don`t understand and try to push out people who don`t want to live the same. Who knows. But in my opinion, gypsies has the worst position in the world in every country comparing to other races or ethnics...