Cultural Differences Between African American And Latinos

In this paper, I will go over three separate situation or dilemmas that demonstrate a cultural class between two socio-cultural groups. The two socio- cultural groups will be the African American and Latinos. What is socio- cultural groups mean, “relating to, or involving a combination of social and cultural factors” (Merriam-webster.com, 2017). The three points are the workplace, misunderstanding or conflict between different nationalities, religious or, ethnic groups and the differences in cultural practice. This paper would go into detail and explaining the dilemma or the misunderstanding of culture groups especially African American and Latinos. I am interest in these three points because I feel by being minority it is important to have …show more content…
I agree with the article of The Diversity Factor that, “the workplace is one of the few places where people of different races, ethnicities, histories, and cultures come together to achieve common goals” (Anon, 2017), there are a few more places that all culture come together for a common goal, for an example when 911 happen all men and women work together to fix America again, culture or ethnic group did not matter or the color of your skin. The article of The Diversity Factor, has classify Blacks and Latinos are racially and ethnically. Blacks and Latinos is described as the, “culturally diverse mix of people who all grapple with the issues our country faces” (Anon, 2017). It sad that African American and Latinos have their own identities regardless how society look at them or accepted them they have their own style, values, even in the work place they are not accepted. African American feel that racial play a part in workplace sometime because African American feel that when another person or culture speak another language, they are scary that they are being talked about. The Latinos feel it racial when they speak in another language they are foreigner because they have a strong accent. Another racial thought could be by being Latinos they must have them, “Knowledge of the Spanish language varies considerably within the Latino community” (Anon, 2017). It sad when the writer Daisy was doing research she came cross that, “in the corporate sector the higher-level positions held by Blacks and Latinos are generally held by those who are lighter in skin color” (Anon, 2017). This show that racial plays a part in the workplace. It seems if you skin tone light you have a change to have higher position in