The Importance Of Quinceañeras In Latin America

At the age of 18 you should be considered an adult because, you are old enough to make decisions for yourself. You no longer have a curfew, which means you are responsible of making sure you are home at a decent hour. You will be expected to act like an adult, especially in the work field. People will start to look at you for promotions and higher paying jobs. You are now legal and the laws start to change for you, these laws make you more responsible as an adult and not just a minor. You have to be more cautious of what you are doing and think about how it’s affecting the law and the people

Most common cultures have rituals, celebrations, or traditional ceremonies to acknowledge the coming of age of boys and/or girls. The Hispanic culture have a traditional “Quinceañera” for young teenage girls turning age 15 to recognize her coming of age as a woman. Jews have “Bar Mitzvah” for men or “Bat Mitzvah” for women to celebrate coming of age. Although in some cultures, celebrating coming age is nothing less than actually celebrating; but in other cultures, such as Aborigine culture, rather than having a huge celebration, young teenage boys, age thirteen, are enduring an essential evaluation. In this stage of their life, their elders test them to see if they are “man” enough to survive by themselves.

For instance, the normal age of adulthood: eighteen, which was once twenty-one according to Alan Greenblatt “Aristotle wrote of 21 as the age when a person would have completed three 7-year stages of youth development [...] because that’s when men were capable of wearing a full suit of armor” (Par. 7). Also what he mentioned was that during the twentieth century was that due to eighteen year olds joining the military to fight in World War II, they also began to start raising their own families, which since then became known as the milestone of adulthood. Unfortunately the rite of this milestone clearly wasn’t a good choice as several people nowadays disobey laws such as the drinking age, resulting in more injuries and deaths caused by drinking and driving. Not to mention that due to the fact that the brain isn’t biologically developed fully until the age of twenty-five, eighteen year olds tend to make the silly and illogical mistakes they made as

Maturity is a state that everybody tries to reach during their lives. Children spend their infancy, and sometimes adolescence, growing up and learning how to behave in the adults and work world. Schools teach them dissimilarities between these two different worlds. There isn’t a precise age in which kids become mature, it depends on the experiences they had, their society, their family and other causes. In the movie and novel The Giver, the community has a rite of passage where children, during the annual ceremony, become more mature and assume more responsibilities until they get into adulthood.

A quinceañera is a celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday and her transition from childhood to adulthood. It was that time of year that my sister was turning fifteenth and my parents watch how parents stress when it comes to planning. They were thinking of hiring a party planner to be stress free; but I told them to save that money; therefore,

When I was young I was told 18 would be the age when I would become an adult. When I turned 18 I could get a tattoo or piercing without permission, I could buy cigarettes, and I did not need permission for most everything. Most everything except drinking alcohol. In the United States the drinking age is 21 years old, 4 years after a teenager legally turns into an adult.

A coming of age ceremony that an American girl has is called a sweet 16. A Latin American or Mexican girl has a Quinceanera. A sweet 16 is a party for a young girl turning 16. A Quinceanera is given to a girl on there 15th birthday .The two are very different but at the same time they are very alike. The two ceremonies have some similarities. First of all they both mark the transition of childhood to womanhood. They both are a form of a party or birthday celebration. These two are traditions for different cultures.

Being an adult is the number one thing that children want to be: The desire to get older to do things that you want when you want and having no one say otherwise. However, what is an adult? An ambiguous term that really falls into the hands of the individual, where at Sixteen you can drive, eighteen you can vote, and twenty-one you can drink, for those in the USA, all varying ages that individuals could use as indications of adulthood. Robin Heinig wrote and article “What is it about 20- somethings?” where she discusses Arnett’s proposal about a new developmental stage, “Emerging Adulthood”. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, an American professor in psychology, believes that we aren 't entering adulthood till the later portions of our twenties. For some, this may be true but for the general population including myself I find this hard to believe. Leo Hendry’s article, “How universal is emerging adulthood? An empirical example”, on emerging adulthood gives a deeper understanding to what this generation 's kids are going through. The late teens are a crucial part to the lives of a young adult. It 's the time that we spend trying to identify ourselves, escape the circumstance that we are put into at a younger age, or just had a better family income. Arnett is not wrong, but all other external factors need to be accounted for before we know, or even consider if emerging adulthood is a new developmental stage.

In my heritage, when a girl reaches the age of fifteen there family throws a symbolic party for them, this celebration is known as a Quinceañera. It is view as a way in which a girl becomes a woman. The photo above was taken during my Quinceañera in August about a little over a year ago. A girl reaching the age of fifteen is seen as a huge think, it is viewed as a girl’s true becoming interconnected to the outside world. Before reaching of age, girls are viewed as a humble and fragile object that needs the care of the family in order to survive. During the celebration, the girl is changed from flat shoes to high heels signifying her “rising” into society. Months are taken to find a dress, shoes, etc; everything is done to be perfect in order

How old should one be before being considered adult? I realized that age alone does not make an adult . But what does? I like to think an "adult" cannot be defined in superficial terms, but rather the characteristics a person embodies. I believe one important aspect that defines a person as an adult when they are capable of holding opinions that may be deemed unpopular or controversial, but they have enough conviction and self-determination to stand by those opinions.

I believe that we should consider some people adults at the age of eighteen because legally you are considered an adult and yet again I don’t think some people should be considered adults at eighteen. In my opinion I think it varies a lot on your maturity level and your life skills along with your social class. For those with developmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders the transition process from childhood to adulthood is a complicated and complex process. To begin with at the beginning of the semester while I was reading “When Are You Really and Adult?” by Julie Beck I began to reflect about how dealing with emerging adulthood effects “normal” people compared to individuals on the autism spectrum. To further support my point

When should a child or teenager be considered an adult ? Well I and the law both seem to think it's 18. I believe that when you turn 18 you are old enough to make your own decisions and life choices . But ignorant people like Alan Greenblatt seem to disagree and think that when you turn 21 or something you are then an adult. When you turn 18 you have finished high school are thinking about college and how you are going to spend your life .

Age requirements change depending on the type of job the child is doing. For non agricultural labor, the minimum is 14, though with exceptions. The agricultural minimum age requirement in the U.S happens to be between 10 and 15, though this is circumstantial.For hazardous nonagricultural labor the requirement is 18, where as the hazardous agricultural minimum age is 16. Child labor is bad for many reasons. It can cause physical and psychological damage, and seems to be linked to be linked to family poverty. According to the I.L.O. (International Labour Organization), 168 million children worldwide 355,206 of which are 7-14 years old are engaged in child labor as of 2013. Child labor among girls fell 40% since 2000, though boys had only dropped

Eighteen-year olds throughout the United States are considered legal adults in almost every way, with one notable exception: the privilege of having an alcoholic beverage.

When asked the question “When do you become an adult?” many people would give an age but in reality the answer isn’t that easy. To me adulthood is when you are able and willing to accept responsibility. If you cannot or will not be responsible, you have no right calling yourself an adult. What does make you a grown-up? Is it moving out of the house? Hitting a certain age? Having a relationship? Getting a job?” How is it that we can do. those things, that we consider to be “adult”, but we still feel like kids? Or that we feel like grown-ups, we're certainly old enough, but we haven't. seemed to have accomplished any of those things “grown-ups” have done? People never seem to quite understand the meaning of being an adult.” It has always seemed to me that age is irrelevant. You can be 12 and understand things better than a 30-year-old or you can be 40, have two PhD’s and still wonder if pigeons are migratory birds”.” Many people my age think that getting out of