Growing up‚ I lived in a predominantly Latino community. I was always around people who shared my same culture‚ beliefs‚ and background. Rarely did I ever experience challenges against my culture and beliefs. As I grew older‚ and attained more experiences‚ I became aware of the problems in my community‚ and in the world. Just recently‚ I learned how imperative it is for me to embrace my culture and to help my community. For this reason‚ I was inspired to help make a difference. Over the past few
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Brian Carr English 1302-W03 October 27‚ 2014 Gender Inequality and Hispanic Traditions Gender roles in the Hispanic culture are very traditional. Many families that at one point immigrated to the United States have continued to follow their traditional gender specific roles in the U.S. Unfortunately; there is an inequality when raising children according to their sexes or what we call gender specific roles in the traditional Hispanic culture. Females are raised to be dependent and restricted‚ less
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Juvenile Delinquency in the Hispanic Culture Abstract: There has been a rise in gang violence among the youth across the nation. There are also cruel and violent tendencies that the youth that are a part of this group. It is important to understand reasons why Hispanic youth are turning toward gangs. The influx of gang activity in the neighborhoods and schools has adversely affected the level of violence seen in communities across the nation. The rise in the Latino population in many urban areas
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shows the way that he is not able to keep a strong grasp on hope. Instead‚ the problem is that the Siddhartha does not know how to live in a way that follows the path of enlightenment even though he was raised in a caste that promotes the idea of spirituality. For Siddhartha‚ the realization that everyone has pain also mirrors the life and the teachings of Buddha. “Siddhartha’s travels showed him much more of the suffering of the world. He searched for a way to escape the inevitability of death‚ old
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are experienced by most Latinos‚ however undocumented immigrants experienced these types of stressors at a greater rate due to their limited English language skill (Caplan‚ 2007). Leuck and Wilson (2010) conducted 2059 face-to-face interviews with adolescent Latinos‚ and found that while high English language proficiency is a significant predictor for having low acculturative stress among Latino immigrants‚ having high Spanish language proficiency predicted that these Latino immigrants would experience
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Latino Deportations For many undeveloped countries around the world‚ the United States is seen as the land of the opportunity. The land where hard work will be rewarded and all goals can be achieved. However the real United States is not as wonderful as it seems for an immigrant‚ specially an illegal immigrant. It is no doubt minorities on the United States are discriminated and somehow targeted. Every day our jail population is growing and prisons are becoming more and more overcrowded. The “unworthy
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Spirituality and religion have begun to be referred to as separate practices‚ they have somewhat come to a difference. They no longer seem to fall in the same category. As reported by the Christian research association‚ that whilst there has been a decline in devotion to traditional religions‚ more people indicate that they are nevertheless‚ ‘spiritual’. But why is this? Is religion losing its followers due to new ways of people experiencing spirituality? In the eyes of most young Australians religion
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Being the oldest first-generation child of a Hispanic family has had the greatest influence in my education. When my parents immigrated to the US‚ they did not know English and had only received primary education. As a result‚ I had no one at home that could help with my school work. Although learning English was difficult‚ I knew it had to be learned fast so I would not fall behind in school and become the translator my parents desperately needed. Even at a young age‚ I knew education was essential
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It’s tradition to have a quinceañera when a girl turns fifteen in the Hispanic culture. The reason for that is to celebrate the coming of womanhood and maturity. Well it’s beem like that over a long period of time‚ and even though that tradition is still happening today‚ the purpose of that tradition has pretty much faded. Now a days the only reason to have a quinceañera is to throw a big party‚ have the biggest and prettiest dress‚ and to dance all night. I in that case had a quinceañera for that
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“The Hidden Spring”‚ The Hidden True Spirituality The springs streaming in the mountain‚ moisten the soil‚ making a good condition for plants to grow there. So does the spirituality for human beings. The spirituality is the pure spring water that moisten our hearts and souls‚ making a good condition for us to grow in faith. But‚ one day‚ “a powerful dictator came and cut off the sources of water‚ paved them over with concrete so thick that no spring of water could ever penetrate it. The water that
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