Comparing The Renee Family And The Latino Culture

El cambio es algo bueno. That means change is a good thing and I have a proposal that involves change for families. I believe that Mexican families deserve a shot to live in America, even if they are illegal immigrants. The plan involves a way where a United States’ family and a family from Mexico can both benefit from each other. The three ways that a U.S. family and a Mexican family can benefit from each other are: sharing different foods, learning new languages, and learning new life skills. While these exchanges are going, the Mexican family earns free citizenship as well. This is a government funded program. The families will have to pay for their own food and housing, but the housing is supplied by the government for a low price. The housing fee pays for a limited, but reasonable, amount of water and electricity.

The culture I choose to explore is the Hispanic culture. I choose this culture because many of the people I work with and many of my friends identify with the Hispanic culture and I feel it would be interesting to know more about a culture that is so relevant to my life. A few of the big things in Hispanic culture that I found interesting are language, traditions and food. Hispanic refers to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture.

Familismo. Latino parents expect their children to prioritize family needs over individual needs. Understanding the values within the Latino family is crucial to analyzing family influences on education. Furthermore, understanding Latino cultural values and analyzing how these values either are or aren’t replicated in the high school setting is crucial to understanding the success of the first‐generation Latinain and out of high school. Cultural values which define the family dynamics of Latinos are: familismo (the value of family), comunidad (the value of community), and personalismo (the value of relationship), which are understood as presenting a sense of validation, mentorship, and cultural mirroring when transferred to the university setting (Castellanos & Gloria, 2007). Comunidad or community is defined as a sense of responsibility for one’s community and is closely related to familismo, which is a sense of caring for and being responsible to one’s family and prioritizing family needs over personal ones (Castellanos & Gloria, 2007; Sy & Romero, 2008).

Families come in all types and sizes. There is no one perfect type of family. Every family is influenced by the world around it. The culture, socioeconomic status, workplace of parents, laws, and the media all have a part in influencing how families function. Families function as part of a larger system. According to Schaefer (2015), “Familism means pride and closeness in the family, which results in family obligation and loyalty coming before individual needs” (p. 189). The family plays an important rule as it is at the center of Hispanic life. Whenever an individual becomes friendly with a Hispanic individual, that individual is treated as a family. Although the tendency of Hispanics to maintain close ties with extended families which often

America, the States, USA, the North, are all different ways of referring to the nation in which everyone believes their dreams can become a reality. The United States of America is and has always been a nation of immigrants, but many forget that the first ones to arrive were not British but Spanish. The Spanish conquistadors were the first ones to arrive on American soil during the beginning of the 1500s. Soon most of the powerful nations in Europe followed. Despite their positive impact on the American culture, Latinos have been degraded for many years by the media, stereotypes and people with power like the chiefs of police and even presidential candidates. While the media portrays Latinos as maids and gangsters, the majority of Latinos migrate to the USA looking for a better future for their families and for themselves. In this essay, I will investigate the complex role that Latinos have played in American society, economic, and political life, focusing specifically on the cultural disconnect between Latino self-identification and white-American misconceptions of Latino-specific immigration.

Our family history is rooted in Texas and Mexico. Discussing our family history with my parents and relatives I have found that my grand-parents and great grandparents were born and raised in Texas. They moved back and forth between Mexico and Texas for work. Both sides of our family always sought work and better opportunities for their families. Our families have been made up of strong men who worked mostly as laborers. My grandfathers and great-grand fathers worked in cotton fields, as ranch hands, migrant workers known as “Campesinos”, “Brazeros” or laborers, sheered sheep and have even been grave diggers. Working in many different manual labors in the Del Rio, Austin and Hill Country area of Brady and Seguin, always working hard for their families. During the depression in America, my

Growing up in a Mexican household means being surrounded by hard working individuals. Many did not have the same opportunities that their children have today, but they have persevered from their hardships, and strive to give their children the experiences that were not offered to them. For example, as a teenager, my mother worked three jobs, and attended night classes to obtain her GED, in order to contribute to the household. To this day, my mother is still a hard worker and passes on her knowledge of the working life to my sister and I. Also, my father worked in the fields, in Mexico for any wage, in order to make sure there was food on the table. He grew up in a family that did not emphasize the value of education, which is why there is

Zayas et al. (2005) states “…familism reflects the centrality of the family in the institutional structure of Latin American societies and the governing role of the family in the individual’s life and behavior…emphasizes maintenance of family cohesion, obligation and intense attachment to relative, and primacy of the family in the individual’s self-identity and social world.” The adolescent Latina is taught that family is first and is the most important, playing a large role in their life. They must strive to help out the family as much, whenever they can whether this be financially or simply taking care of younger siblings, or elder family members. As a Latina coming from a Hispanic family, this rings true as the notion of helping the family was heavily enforced and emphasized not only in my own home, but in that of fellow Latino students. During high-school, many friends

Over the expansion of over three decades the international latino cultural center has had become a great factor of latino life in the city of chicago. This organization brings both Latinos and non-Latinos together to share a cross-cultural experiences with their key events of the Latino Film Festival and their music festival. They have a demographic of 20 Latin American nations such as colombia , paraguay, Chile, venezuela and many more. Simply with The record of last years film festival of 70,000 attendees, with every new year the numbers increasing demonstrating the importance to showcase latino work to the public. From those attendees 4,000 of those are part of the the outreach program. This outreach program is a small 16 year program of the festival for students of chicago, it provides free daytime admission to view some of the films that are showcases in the festival.This gives students the opportunity to see latinos in more positive roles than those often portrayed in big budget films and for some students it is a way to connect with their own cultural heritage. In this way the younger generation has the opportunity to understand one's own cultural and

The reason we think of poverty affecting only Blacks and Latino/ as in America is because of the double jeopardy, or a dual disadvantage for children who are both poor and African American or Latino. These segregated communities of concentrated poverty are the direct result of postwar policies such as redlining, when banks refused to lend money to white people living in neighborhoods with African Americans or Latinos, encouraging them to flee central cities. Programs like the GI Bill enabled many white families to buy homes with little or no money down and in some cases pay less to move into a newly constructed home than to remain in an urban area. Thus, whites who could receive mortgages in new suburban developments moved away, leaving people

The poverty rate has many variations between ethnic and racial subgroups. “In 2009, 25.8% blacks and 25.3% of Hispanics were poor, compared to 9.4% of non-Hispanic whites and 12.5% of Asians” (Michigan, 2006). Black or Hispanic families headed by single women are statistically higher in poverty than of families headed by single men or married couples.

While the rest of society moving forward and thriving, we see many African-Americans and Latinos in a cycle of poverty. We see them all the time begging on the sides of the street for means to provide the necessities for them and their families. These are the people we see to be living in mobile homes and the slums and outskirts of the city. We often seem them taking minimum wage jobs in construction and in fast food restaurants that are often times considered “lesser” by the rest of society.

Family structure can be described as the framework of any family; it details the roles, positions and responsibilities of each family member and describes how they function together as a whole to fulfill the primary objective universal to almost every family, to nurture one another. However, because parenting doesn 't occur within a vacuum, many influences such as culture, ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) can largely affect how a family structures itself.

It’s no secret that poverty rates are higher among blacks and Hispanics than it is with Asians or whites. The poverty rates are also higher for the elderly, the disabled, veterans, and immigrants, as well as for women, children, and single-parent households.

I, Susana Luna, have known Rosario Zuñiga Barradas for five years. We met at school when she was my student in English as second language 1B. She was one of my best students. I know Rosario to be a good person, she always helped her classmates and friends when they needed help. She also was aware of the wellness of her classmates and her family members. In my experience, Rosario has proven herself to be an honest, hard-working young woman who loves her family. I trust her because she was my teacher assistant for many months. She helped me to grade student work, make copies and file papers. She is a good mother who is willing to sacrifice personal comforts to ensure that her children are able to have their necessities covered before she would even dream of spending money on herself.