Cuban-Americans and Mexican-Americans both have very different culture. Some of my colleagues at my current workplace are from both the Hispanic groups. Even though they share Spanish language, their dialects are very different. Both cultures use different pronunciations and phrases in their dialogues.…
Analyzing the Case of Gwen Transgender is a term that describes people who have Gender Dysphoria, new term for Gender Identity Disorder (Butcher, Hooley, & Mineka, 2013; Altilio, & Otis-Green, 2011). Uniquely as the word transgender has become a descriptive definition to describe or define a population of marginalized individuals, who may potentially develop anxiety, depression, restlessness, and other symptoms as a result of their disorder. The social construct of sex and gender has become controversial as it is an interchangeable term that includes: cross dressers, trans men, trans women, bigender, and pangender. Summary Gwen is a 36-year transgender male, who is in the process of transitioning into a female.…
Nina Hernandez, in “Is the Trans Conversation Changing in Texas”, argues that there is an opportunity in Texas to raise awareness for the trans community. Hernandez supports this argument by first going into detail about the “state-sponsored bullying” that results from the Texas legislation requiring transgender individuals to use the bathroom corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate (Hernandez). The author then goes on to use the mayor of New Hope, Texas as an example of a possible win for the transgender community. Recently, in New Hope, Texas, Jess Herbst was chosen to fill the position of mayor, after the previous mayer died of a heart attack. In a “fearless open letter to the town’s residents”, Herbst told of her struggle…
In her speech “Our Armies Are Rising and We Are Getting Stronger”, to the Latino Gay Men of New York (LGMNY) in 2001, Sylvia Rivera recounted her life in the context of her contribution to transgender activism, specifically that of the Stonewall Riots which took place during the summer of 1969. Throughout her speech Rivera reveals the underlying and persistent marginalization that took place not only on behalf of the cisgender, heteronormative community, but by her own community as well. Just eight months before her death, Rivera’s speech encapsulated a hierarchy of oppression that attacked her from all sides, which is not only reflected through her personal narratives, but also through the memorialization of social movements and the people…
Caitlyn Jenner herself was quoted saying that “the hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.” Many consider it stunning progress that we have successfully integrated transgender women into the pages of our largest magazines and onto our television screens. However, an identity for transgender women was never established outside of the traditional female archetypes that support the perpetuation of Capitalism. Dozens of transgender women, especially transgender women of color, have been murdered in the past year.…
Transgender. This word is being heard more and more in America but what does it mean? According to the Webster Dictionary, the word transgender means “of, relating to or being a person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person 's sex at birth” ("Transgender"). Transgender and gender nonconforming people have in recent years earned recognition as being legitimate genders.…
Race relations between Mexicans and Americans was hot topic of conversation during the nineteenth century. With the Mexican-American War going on during this time relations between the United States and Mexico were tense. Due to the tension between both countries, Americans developed the impression that Mexican people were savage criminals that wanted to kill American and take over the United States. This concept of Mexican people and Mexican culture can be seen in most of the literature of the time. Authors conceptualized this impression and illustrated it through their writing.…
Moreover, present-day generational Mexican Americans are perceived to be greater assimilated, monolingual, multigenerational units who prefer the grander ways of American life above the simplistic virtues of Mexican culture (Chavez-Reyes, 2010, pp. 24-25). Generational Mexican Americans, although retaining to the obligations and loyalties to family and religion, have also extended themselves to prefer certain dine and wine, language, and social and cultural patterns of the American identity (Chavez, 2010, p. 25). However, given the diversity of the Mexican American community and the dual nature of their struggle, the lack in uniformity among the interplay between generational Mexican Americans and their educational progress indicates for further…
Oral diseases, including gingivitis and periodontitis, are inflammation of the gums due to lack of brushing and flossing, irregular dental cleanings, tobacco use, heavy alcohol use, poor dietary choices, diabetes and medications that reduce saliva production. Oral diseases cause the gums to recede from the tooth and lead to tooth decay. Mexican Americans aged 35-44 years experience untreated tooth decay nearly twice as much as white, non-Hispanics. The greatest disparity among children aged 2-8 is seen in Mexican Americans. While 47.2% of adults have some form of periodontal disease, the greatest amount is among Mexican Americans.…
Although in this paper I do not exclusively discuss Latinas as a separate entity, I would like to give some background on the differences between male and female Latinos. Female Latinos outnumbered their male counterpart (57% to 43%) in college classrooms (Lango 1995). Perhaps, this may be cultural since we see the same trend with US-born population (Lewin 2006). I just wanted to recognize that gender also plays a role in academic achievement in Latinos as well as other ethnic groups. Primary education in the United States refers to the first eight-nine years of formalized education.…
Race has always been an issue for the United States of America, from the Natives, to the Africans, and now Latinos. Yet if you look around the United States there is way more than these races here, however these races have been singled out. Envision the Caucasian majority race switched as one of the races The United States has had a bad history with becoming the majority. Considering it is more minorities in The United States than Caucasian’s this could have been a possibility a long time ago. The dissimilarities among Latinos in American society is implanted in their community location within the social structure, in which identity, is developing from the intersected social spaces formed by race, gender, class, and culture.…
As defined in the 8th edition of Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2010), the acronym “LGBT” refers to Lesbian (L), Gay (G), Bisexual (B) and Transgender (T). The first three components of the term “LGBT” are used to describe an individual’s sexual orientation. While gays and lesbians are those who develop emotional, romantic and sexual attractions to people of their own sex, bisexuals share these attractions with members of both sexes. The “T” in the term LGBT, however, refers to individuals whose gender identity or gender expression does not align with their assigned birth sex.…
Being a Latino in America is difficult because most Latinos are considered immigrants even though that is not true. Latinos have to deal with so many things like discrimination, being looked down at, seen as worthless, or looked at as either teen moms or gangsters by society. All these barriers that Latinos have to deal with prevents them from coming out as an LGBTQ+ member because Latinos fear that they wont be accepted by their family due to culture. Coming out of the closet and being latino is really crucial because Latinos are not always accepted within their cultural grounds. Latino family 's tend to feel strongly about tradition, culture and religion which makes LGBTQ latinos less open to showing their true identity to their families.…
INTRODUCTION LGBT people are a part of every community. The LGBT community in itself is diverse, comprising of people of all ages from different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, from all over the world. LGBT is the initialism that stands for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender”. The initialism is meant to highlight the diversity of sexuality and gender identity-focused cultures.…
Taylor et al. (2011) examined the effectiveness of a behavioral HIV intervention program created for male-to-female (MTF) transgender individuals. The goal of this research was to examine how effective were the changes in sexual risk behavior after the behavioral HIV intervention program. Researchers recruited 63 MTF transgender individuals of different racial and ethnic background.…