My Hispanic heritage has played a huge role in my lifestyle. I grew up in Laredo‚ Texas a city where Hispanics are the majority. My fellow teachers have always advised me to get out of Laredo and experience the real world. Coming from a town where Hispanics are all you see has led to me being proud of my heritage. Our people had come from a history of hardworking people coming to America to live the “American dream.” And that is what my mother exactly did coming from Honduras‚ a small poor country
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Hispanic American Diversity Hispanic Americans cultural diversity is emulated in the various groups as well as in the origins of the individual cultures. Hispanic cultures have been swayed to different degrees by many traditions. Unification attempts of Hispanic Americans have often been tense among the various Hispanic American subgroups. Mexican Americans‚ Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans have very little in common. Most Hispanic Americans identify with other
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I agree with your post that the Hispanic patient values the family unit. The oldest male does have the power in the family and control’s the decision making (Carteret‚ 2011). My husband is Hispanic and is the male in his family that makes all the decisions. I grew up with no father or male influence in my life. Personally‚ it has taken an adjustment for this line of thinking for myself‚ but I have pointed out to my husband that he is living in America now and he could adopt American ways. In
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communication comes noise or barriers that restrict the meaning of the message‚ (Effective Business Communication in New Zealand‚ Pg. 10) i.e.: how the receiver conveys the message. Using my own knowledge of the working situation within a rest home I have decided that perception is the most important of barriers. Of perception three of the most important areas are Field of experience‚ Personality and Characteristics and the use of language and tone. Field of experience includes barriers resulting from differences
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Communication barriers Diana Bedoya Castillo Introduction In this booklet I will explain 6 of the barriers to effective communication that can occur in the Nursing home. Health issues When a patient is feeling ill most of the home worker may not be able to communicate as effectively as when the patient is feeling well. This can affect the service users. Emotional barrier As a human beings we all emotional difficulties sometimes and become upset. The patient may have a bad
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how diabetes is disease that affects most Hispanics/Latinos. It will discuss their statistics against the disease and other health problems it causes. It will tell you how serious of a disease it is but with detection and treatment may save lives. KEYWORDS: diabetes‚ Hispanic/Latino‚ disease‚ detection The Effects That Diabetes Have on Hispanics/Latinos in the United States and the Risks They Face as a Community Research Diabetes in Latino/Hispanics is a major health problem in the United States
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comprehensive cultural assessment when talking to a Hispanic patient. Communication is one of those key components. Hispanics are often multicultural in a language with their main language as Spanish and English is their second language (Gonzalez & Morrison 2016). Communication can also depend on the person’s education level and what gender they are since some cultures have women as second-class citizens and sometimes men talk for them. Hispanics are often flexible with time. They would rather spend
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Trying to listen to more than one conversation at a time‚ this includes having the television or radio on while attempting to listen to somebody talk; being on the phone to one person and talking to another person in the same room and also being distracted by some dominant noise in the immediate environment. You find the communicator attractive/unattractive and you pay more attention to how you feel about the communicator and their physical appearance than to what they are saying. Perhaps you simply
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During the early 1800s and late 1900s‚ the United States underwent huge economic and technological changes. The development of a society that relied on free enterprise and innovation led to new inventions and increasingly efficient businesses. These changes helped make the United States one of the world’s strongest economies and industrial centers. From Thomas Edison’s light bulb to Henry Ford’s affordable automobiles to Frederick Taylor’s time-study analysis‚ US innovations influenced business‚
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HisRepresenting nearly 63% Mexican Americans are the largest group of all the Hispanic Americans in the United States (US Census Bureau‚ 2011). Originally encouraged to settle into what is now Texas to boost Mexico’s economy. As the number of settlers increased‚ so did their want of autonomy – resulting in a battle over land and rights in the Mexican American War in 1846. According to “The U.S.-Mexican War‚ The Aftermath (2006)” by war’s end “approximately 80‚000 Mexicans resided in the territory
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