Gender Inequality And Hispanic Traditions
Christine Sanchez
Brian Carr
English 1302-W03
October 27, 2014
Gender Inequality and Hispanic Traditions Gender roles in the Hispanic culture are very traditional. Many families that at one point immigrated to the United States have continued to follow their traditional gender specific roles in the U.S. Unfortunately; there is an inequality when raising children according to their sexes or what we call gender specific roles in the traditional Hispanic culture. Females are raised to be dependent and restricted, less vocal, and over all Marianismo (loving and caring mothers, nurturers). While Hispanic males have free range, are taught to be assertive and vocal, and over all Machismo (machismo refers to male 's manhood, courage to fight, honor and dignity, keeping one 's word, and protecting one 's name, provider). Keeping traditions in the Hispanic culture is very important yet we must acknowledge that the times are different now; with this in mind we must rethink the way we raise both female and male children in the Hispanic culture. We must raise our children to be strong and independent, educated, vocal, acceptance of equal responsibility in the family. In the traditional Hispanic family males and females are “groomed” according to their gender. Thus leading females to be dependents of a man or their own families; teaching the female that they don’t have a voice, and restricting them of opportunities to be an independent individual. All the while the Hispanic male is “groomed” to independent, assertive, and vocal. All these are good qualities except when these qualities are used to control and essentially have a submissive spouse. As a part of a new generation of a Hispanic family it is important to raise both male and female children with the same qualities and expectations in life. We must raise them to be strong and independent children so they may grow up to be successful contributors to our society. Raise both genders to be assertive to get what they
Brian Carr
English 1302-W03
October 27, 2014
Gender Inequality and Hispanic Traditions Gender roles in the Hispanic culture are very traditional. Many families that at one point immigrated to the United States have continued to follow their traditional gender specific roles in the U.S. Unfortunately; there is an inequality when raising children according to their sexes or what we call gender specific roles in the traditional Hispanic culture. Females are raised to be dependent and restricted, less vocal, and over all Marianismo (loving and caring mothers, nurturers). While Hispanic males have free range, are taught to be assertive and vocal, and over all Machismo (machismo refers to male 's manhood, courage to fight, honor and dignity, keeping one 's word, and protecting one 's name, provider). Keeping traditions in the Hispanic culture is very important yet we must acknowledge that the times are different now; with this in mind we must rethink the way we raise both female and male children in the Hispanic culture. We must raise our children to be strong and independent, educated, vocal, acceptance of equal responsibility in the family. In the traditional Hispanic family males and females are “groomed” according to their gender. Thus leading females to be dependents of a man or their own families; teaching the female that they don’t have a voice, and restricting them of opportunities to be an independent individual. All the while the Hispanic male is “groomed” to independent, assertive, and vocal. All these are good qualities except when these qualities are used to control and essentially have a submissive spouse. As a part of a new generation of a Hispanic family it is important to raise both male and female children with the same qualities and expectations in life. We must raise them to be strong and independent children so they may grow up to be successful contributors to our society. Raise both genders to be assertive to get what they
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