Puerto Rico

cultures of Japan and Puerto Rico. Participants included 91 University of Chicago students, 97 Puerto Rican University students, 150 Japanese University students, and 106 older Japanese individuals (Triandis, Bontempo, Villareal, Asai, & Lucca, 1988, p.221). All participants received a questionnaire with 144 items to be answered individually. Participants in the third study included 50 female and 50 male students from the University of Chicago and the University of Puerto Rico. All took a…

Summary: A very strong hurricane, “Maria”, hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. This was the strongest hurricane that had hit Puerto Rico in 80 years. It destroyed hundreds of homes and completely knocked out all of the power across the island. At least nine people were left dead in the awake across the Caribbean., Hurricane Maria blew into Puerto Rico in the morning in the southeast coastal town of Yabucoa. It was a Category 4 storm with winds of 155 miles per hour (mph) (250 kph). Streets…

Latina/o identities: Social Diversity and U.S Politics was quite an interesting reading assignment. It challenged the practices of the wrong contraction of monolithic and singular identity in the U.S. Latina/os. This was accomplished in a number of ways. The theoretical approach on social group identities such as racial, ethnic and gender identities. As well as an approach on the historical mistakes on the diversity and complexity of the U.S. Latina/o Population. While also focusing on the…

To begin, both of my parents were born and raised in the Dominican Republic, living about 30 minutes away from each other, yet they met in the neighboring island of Puerto Rico. Even though I consider myself Dominican, since both of my families are so, I was born in Puerto Rico. More specifically, I was born in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, on Monday, April 14, 1997 at 9am in the Auxilio Mutuo Hospital. I consider myself to have a dual identity because of this, being part of two cultures at the same…

In 1970, the United States government came up with the word to describe a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. This is a word we are all familiar with when it comes to referring to this group of people. This word is “Hispanic.” At the present time, the United States Census Bureau defines race in five categories and does not specifically define Hispanic with a category of its own. The categories include: white…

Coming from Puerto Rico and being part of the United States creates a big confusion for the Puerto Rican people because we are considered to be a high context culture. We use many hand gestures in a conversation, patriotism allows to trust ourselves as Puerto Ricans because we like to believe that we are all in this together as a group of people. However, since the United States has being molding little by little our society, businesses and government we are slowly loosing our Puerto Rican…

Puerto Ricans value the importance of family. “Traditionally, the Hispanic family is a close-knit group and the most important social unit. The Hispanic "family unit" includes not only parents and children but also extended family” (Clutter and Nieto, n.d.). Puerto Ricans also consider close friends and church members as family as well. Familismo, a cultural belief, that focuses on family values and family’s well being rather than on individual opportunities (Ayón and Aisenberg, 2010). When a…

to learn more about how pills really work in a human body. After finishing high school, I decided to go to a vocational school and begun my first experience as a medical office assistant. My first job experience was at a clinical laboratory in Puerto Rico where I was exposed for the first time to the interaction with patients providing information they needed for their treatments and helping them to fill up forms for any clinical treatment. It fascinated me to see how laboratory technicians were…

slaves and considered unequal to non native people. The issues here don't really start to make a change until the natives decide to start fighting back. During the late 1900s Americans started to invade native lands such as Guatemala, Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the phillipines and other cities, the Americans began to take over their homes and lives. While parts of the U.S began to modernize, the natives did not. Towards the end of the century new inventors came to light. Brand new inventions…

In a choice held in 1951 the general population of Puerto Rico embraced the bundle. The understanding gave Puerto Ricans self-sufficiency in inner matters, programmed access to U.S. citizenship, and direct access to the administrations of the national government. Puerto Rico would have full control of the legal and the lawmaking body. In 1967, when the matter of the protected status of Puerto Rico was because of be considered by the United Nations, another submission was held…