Mexican Family Reflection Paper

The California Code of Regulations, Title 15, (2017 California Code of Regulations, Title 15, Division 3 State of California Code of Regulations Title 15. Crime Prevention and Corrections) Defines a Prison Gang as “any gang or disruptive group whose roots, or origins were formed in the California Department of Corrections, or federal prison system.

I’m an American grown up with Mexican roots; with all their traditions, religious beliefs, holidays, and foods. I come from a small town of south Texas, called The Rio Grande Valley, where I live with my average size family. I’ve grown up with my family facing hardships, and flaws yet united always. As time has gone by I’ve come to learn that everything around me has shaped me to be the young lady I am today, and I’m grateful for that.

Depending on the situation, if a task is viewed as more masculine, then the males of the family, when they come of age, are expected to complete them. On the other hand, if the task is viewed as more feminine, then the women in the households are expected to undertake those chores. The actions required in the family vary from household chores to providing for everyone. The most often talked about gender role in the Hispanic culture is the male in the family being the

According to Giger, “in 2000, 70% of Mexican-American families were married couple families” (Giger, 2008). Of that 70%, 21% were female-headed households (Giger, 2008). That is significant. For one thing, this shows how far they have come as a culture, to assert female dominance in a household.

America used to have the same gender roles as Hispanic culture but now it’s been fading away quickly and are getting close to gender equality while Hispanic culture are still behind compared to other developing countries culture. In Hispanic culture there are two types of roles, Machismo which applied to the male and Marianismo to the female. Machismo is associated with dominant and Marianismo is associated with dependent and submissive.

Just like in the US there are 3 meals a day. But the most important meal of the day is el almuerzo (lunch) unlike the US.To start off the day they have a huge breakfast, which includes 2 eggs and a smaller steak with beans and a cup of coffee. For

Growing up in a family of Hispanic descent, there were always defendant roles for the males and the females. The males were expected to get a job and make the money to support the family. The females were expected to stay home and care for the children and do all the household chores. Dillard comments his mother only ran the household (284). The males were not allowed in the kitchen and the females were expected to have the table set and dinner ready when the males arrived home from work. I remember going to my grandmother’s house for dinner and all the males would be sitting down eating, while the females waited on them hand and foot. When all the males had finished eating, they would leave their empty plates on the table for the females

In Mexico, the family remains the most important social institution. Such, is considered to be the main support and protection system among all for Mexicans. Primary ties are structured through blood descent, which comes from the mother’s and father’s sides. Therefore, every person is a member of two family lines. In addition, the “Parentela” or extended family usually includes all the descendants from the grandparents. For this reason, it is normal for a person to have a numerous extended family. According to the CDC, Mexico has traditionally been home to the patriarchal family structure. The father usually works and provides for the family while mothers take care of the household. However, the number of

A gang is an organized group with a recognized leader whose activities are either criminal or, at the very least, threatening to the community. (Walker, 2011) Throughout history there have been some infamous gangs that have gotten media attention and others that have gone under the radar. One of the more underground gang structures are prison gangs. The Nuestra Familia may not be in the news as much anymore compared to other gangs, but they are nothing to be taken lightly. Prison gangs have been around since the late 20th century and only seem to be getting stronger if nothing is going to be done to prevent them. Gangs in prison have members in and out of prison. One of the more popular gangs that has been gaining steam recently is

The first person or people who should be caring the burden for elderly care lies within their own family. Within the American culture many family members prefer to put their older members in elder homes. My family is originally from Mexico so I am aware of the family values embedded within Mexican culture. I have never seen a Mexican family have their elderly family members live or be taking care of by somebody else that is not a relative. We live in an American society that does not value the care and need for the elderly and prefer to leave up to state and national departments. Since they were the ones who created the generation in which we live in we should be grateful and provide them with the best care possible within our own homes. Many elders who live in homes receive poor or abusive care from faculty. This is not an environment that we should be letting them live in especially if they are your parents. If they lived there lives to watch you grow and take care of you we should be returning them the favor and taking care of them until their final days. The only exception that I have for not taking care of them would be if they have a serious disability or if they are mentally ill. There are illness where the son or daughter of the family member is not able to care for that person because of circumstances that out of their reach. In this situation it would be ok to admit them to home where they are professionally prepared to care for them and have the resources needed

family is currently going through health, housing and economic issues. The Ramirez family consists of the father Mr. Juan Ramirez, age 81. Maria Ramirez, age 42, is the oldest daughter and Olga, age 28 is the youngest. Daughter Maria has two children they are Marco, age 22, who is diagnosed with Autism and daughter Lisa, 17 years old. The social worker has applied the strength perspective and the ecosystems perspective in helping them to assist their issues. The prioritized issues that will be face are Mr. Ramirez health issues, the possibility of loosing their home, and the economic issues the family is facing at the moment. The social work will abide

We are flooded with social conditions that teach us that we live in a world of duality: male and female; man and woman; ying and yang from the moment we are born. I kept my own culture and tradition when I raised my children. Unconsciously, we decorated bedroom pink for girls and blue for boys, we buy pretty dolls for girls and balls for boys; we praise girls for their pretty hair and elegance that while boys are commended for bravery, strong and their confidence. We guide them what activities that we felt comfortable with. Even though, we were more open minded than our parents, we still teach them gender bias and segregated.

8). The traditional views of gender roles are indeed quite different from the modern views. The men in society are the bread-winners where as the women take care of the children and home. There are basic and common work roles, however in terms of behaviour and involvement there are gender role distinctions. The sex roles generally play out in modern society as well, some sex roles and stereotypes for girls are that they are “nonaggressive, nonathletic, emotionally expressive, tender, domestic, and nurturing. Boys on the other hand are “aggressive, value achievement, attain goals through conflict, and work towards monetary success” (Whicker and Kronenfeld, 1986; pp. 8). The males in the society are “emotionally anesthetised, aggressive, physically tough and daring, unwilling or unable to give nurturance to a child” (Lewis and Sussman, 1986; pp. 1). These traits are carried out by this particular gender mostly outside the society to demonstrate their strength. Those individuals who ignore to carry out these personality traits are seen as weak and unmanly. The women on the other hand are given the responsibility of looking after the family and are supposed to have the opposite personality traits. For instance a woman can show emotions but not outside of the family because of the shame that would bring to the

When going through this assignment the first time, I realized that I needed to relearn about culture. While being at Wheelock I know that I have had many chances to know what culture is, I needed a refresher on what I needed to research. While searching, I learned that a culture was defined by shared patterns of behaviors, interactions and cognitive constructs that are learned through a process of socialization. Through all of these interactions, these shared patterns identify the members of a culture group while also picking those out that belong to another group. By refreshing myself on the topic, this helped me understand where I needed to be looking. Many of the articles that I first came upon were about how it takes a whole village to raise a baby (literally and figuratively) but I decided that I wanted to learn about something that was close to home. I found one article that was more personal to the culture(s) that I am a part of and that I see on a daily basis. I wanted to find something that to my peers and myself found to be influential and rewarding and through my article seemed like it was able to be prove that growing up with these influences changed our lives forever.

In my household there were clearly defined gender roles. Perhaps it did not help that my mother was the only woman in my family, or that our culture was so traditional in their way of thinking. From what I can recall, my father was absent for a greater part of my childhood, leaving the task of raising me to my mother. While I never really had a male figure to directly push the male gender role identity into me, this identity found its way in via my mother. My mother raised me to fit the traditional gender role of most typical men in the Mexican culture. She never made my brothers and I do house chores. She always fed us first, and would eat by herself afterwards. She always put our needs above her own. In this regard my mother unconsciously pushed the notion of male privilege into my brothers and I to the point where I became to see this kind of behavior as natural. The fact that sexist behaviors that existed within my household became a natural reality to me is explained by Linda Brannon (2011) as she explains how male-dominated cultures still exist because both men and women establish master-subordinate roles that support the unequal system (p. 68). Since my mother grew up experiencing only one reality, that of subordination, she unconsciously kept the sexist discriminatory by raising us the way she did. I ultimately grew up being heavily dependent on my mother when it came