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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…

More specifically in its relationship to blackness. In Irene Lopez, a Puerto Rican clinical psychologist’s essay, Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations, she posits that, “Puerto Ricans who consider being “Indian” more beautiful, or more authentic, than being Black and, thus, often prefer to claim this over a Black identity.” (164) Though the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are two distinct countries possessing their own history and…

Immigration per se has been an important part of the foundation of the United States as nation. Excepting Native Americans, none could affirm not to have foreign ancestors. This is a point of controversy with the current state of things despite it has been regulated many times during nation’s history. To this end, U.S. Government through the history of the country has enacted different laws and has regulated the entry of foreigners to the country. The first immigration law enacted by the US…

The Hispanic population within the United States originates from a wide variety of countries, including Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Chili, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Minority Nurse, 2013). Cultural practices related to grief and bereavement can vary widely within this population. Hispanics expect health care providers to be caring and warm and to interact with them in that manner. Hispanics tend to…

In 1492, an explorer by the name of Christopher Columbus landed on the Canary Islands off the coast of the North American continent, and ran into the indigenous people, the “Indians”, who lived there. His discoveries of this new continent, and the lust for natural resources such as gold that were spotted on the people that lived there led to an abundance of European conquistadors, Spanish for conquerors, coming to the Americas in order to pillage the land for its exquisite and valuable…

Cultural discrepancies always play a role when it comes to conflicts. For example, language act as a barrier when trying to get ideas across and are often at the root of all miscommunications. Excluding background differences, all people are human. They feel, they cry, they tend and they’re especially prone to mistakes and hypocrisy. In the novel, The Light in the Forest, by Conrad Richter, a white boy growing up in a Native American tribe is to determine where his true loyalties lie. The…

Little Big Man challenges typical American narratives of history through the inclusion of numerous Natives American characters with multidimensional roles in order to help promote the idea that they were merely the victims by European settlers during the colonial days, the real “savages.” The film’s main character, a white man who plays plays the role of both a European settler and a disguised Native, helps expose the brutal realities of the frontier, by his own people against the Natives who…

For it to start off as a saying to become a fact in Puerto Rico is shocking. As I watch the news with my mother, it devastates me to see the crisis Puerto Rico has acquired. Everywhere they speak about Puerto Rico you hear the debt owed go higher and higher. As of recent, it is estimated that Puerto Rico owes more than 72 billion dollars of bond funds (Long,1). Slowly the value of my homeland is decreasing and my family, who still lives in Puerto Rico, is suffering the consequences of the…

The things that African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans have in common would have to be being an oppressed population in the United States. Each of these groups have been judge and mistreated. European Americans saw something each of these racial groups had and wanted it and knew in order to get what they wanted all they had to do was take it. African Americans started out as slaves they were seen as objects and not humans. European Americans treated African Americans as if they…

Daurys Gomez, a future entrepreneur with a thriving clothing brand. Born in Orange, New Jersey Gomez is coming from a Dominican background. The way you go grow up may affect how you carry yourself through your life. Gomez states, “ Life was pretty easy compared to now to be honest. Growing up it was more like, in a kids perspective, it was really fun because I was around friends and although the area wasn't the best when it comes to safety, we made the best of it.” Safety was a problem growing…