Summary Of The Latin American Family

BRON B. INGOLDSBY in his article "The Latin American Family: Familism Vs. Machismo." Discuss about two conceptual ideas of the Latin American family: Familism, where family needs are placed ahead of individual development; and machismo, Machismo centers around sexual exploitation and aggression and could be considered against the family. The causes for macho behavior are digged, and an attempt to theorize these two approaches to which family life is made.
In the given article the author’s aim is to highlight the connection between family and machismo but instead he basically kept his focus mainly on the machismo. The author explains different faces of machismo. Author believes that aggressiveness and “hypersexuality” are the two biggest characteristics of
Machos main goal conquest many women, and the younger the women the better the women. They see their actions as trophies or medals as they should be appreciated for this act. There were male-to-male interpersonal relationships and arrogance and sexual aggression in male-to-female relation. Women also like somehow tend to believe that male are superior to them and they want men to protect them as they are sexually passive. But some of the researchers say that women are considered to be almost holy thus they are morally and spiritually superior to men. Even Women has this believe that since men give honor and respect to their mothers. As a result women have many children. The notion is that men try to keep other men from their female representative because a woman should be virgin at time of the marriage. They are well known from the fact that other men are like themselves so basically the macho men are very possessive and they control their wives. Literature on the machismo are limited to the lower class, it shows that basically it is limited to the lower class only which concludes that it is a result of the inferiority complex in the lower class as compared to the higher