In a culturally diverse country like the United States, healthcare professionals such as nurses will work with people of different cultural backgrounds who have different view of health and illness. Mcgoldrick, Giordano & (2006) concluded that a sense of well-being in terms of physical and mental health within a societal context is strongly affected by cultural identity. Understanding the ethno-cultural attitudes of an individual or community shared values, behaviors and beliefs makes us…
bi-lingual and b-cultural. There are definitely more advantages than disadvantages when knowing more than one language. Being bi-lingual brings a lot of proud and respect from others like us (bi-lingual) and from ourselves too. When she talks about being Mexican, I can’t really relate to her because where I’m from, my country really support and admire bi-lingual. I do have friends who are ashamed and embarrassed to admit they know both languages, and honestly I feel embarrassed for them because…
Mexican-Americans have been labeled socially in America numerous times and each one hasn’t been much different than the previous. With this being said, Mexicans in America have had difficulties trying to establish themselves into American society while either assimilating into the Anglo-Saxon culture or defying the Anglo-Saxons’ by enforcing their own. Regardless they were heavily faced with discrimination among the Euro-Americans throughout the course of Post Mexican-American War and up until…
At times, many of us are unaware of when stereotypes become our perspective. A lot of the times we do things without a thought. We can stereotype people without even noticing that we are doing it. Stereotypes can be presented to us in a statement or a movie, and we may not even notice it is being presented to us. We tend to take ideas as they are, without really using our critical thinking skills. A big part of this country is movies. When movies first came out, everyone wanted to go to the…
Newspapers were very common in the Mexican community at one point and showed many topics/propaganda that informed many Mexicans. An example from the article published by Charles M. Tatum is La Voz de Los Angeles by Ignacio Lozano published in 1926. Within the newspaper, he published important news for and from the Mexican immigrant community keeping them in the loop of news and…
that defines me in an essential way is the color of my skin, my ethnicity, and my heritage. Women with privilege who want a temporary bronzed summer glow covet my skin, yet for me, it is the first thing that everyone sees and what people use to stereotype me. As a Mexican-American woman in Southeast Texas, I often face different types of prejudice, stereotypes, and racism. As a young girl, it was rather difficult to feel comfortable with who I was, even though my ethnicity was something I could…
the Mexican and American culture. This started when Mexicans started being born in the U.S. producing the term Mexican-American. Parents of these Chicanos, another word for Mexican-American, often make them adapt only to one culture. However, some Chicanos like the American culture more than the Mexican culture and vise versa. This sparked the clash between these two different cultures. Nevertheless, it is evident which culture is better than the other. In the lives of Chicanos, the Mexican…
How does Chili Con carne define different regions of the United States, And why it is viewed as a Mexican dish? William Dwyer Hudson County Community College Professor Philbert 5/10/17 Abstract I’m writing this paper about chili because chili has to be hands down one of my favorite meals. Once a month I wake in the morning and smell the aroma of ground beef being cooked wafting through the house. When you walk down the…
In the 1920s, due to a lack of job opportunities in the agricultural and industrial sectors Mexican immigrants in the United States were encouraged to return to Latin America through the deterioration of their social and economic standing in American society. Mexican Americans went through repatriation in large numbers during the early 1930s because of the quickly rising unemployment rates caused by the Great Depression throughout the United States. These unemployment rates led to even fewer…
the youth, and decide not to listen to them due to their “lack” of knowledge or experience. Aside from the younger populations, minorities are also some of the most overlooked people in the U.S., especially Latinos/as or those of Latino descent, and as a result the younger Latino population are the most disregarded people of all. However, many attempts are being done for the youth and more specifically the Latino youth to be heard. One person in particular, professor Mario T. Garcia of the…