Refers to the importance Latinos place on personal goodness and getting along with others, which is considered more important than individual ability and material success (Reyes & Elias, 2011, p. 729).
Published in Chapter:
Influence of the Culture
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3763-3.ch001
Abstract
In the United States, it seems as though, when one is asked one's culture, it is a difficult question to answer. Mainstream people believe that, unless they have a traceable genealogy, there is a lack of identity. However, as the author will argue here, culture is far more complicated than identifying one's nationality, one's social group, or one's tradition. While some people may find that their entire identity comes from one place, one group, one shared experience, for many others it does not. As people travel, intermix, and intermarry; as business, war, and nature cause them to move, their homelands become subject to different influences, and as a result, customs are blended, and new ones created.