“Latino Americans and throughout Latin America tend to report higher than expected levels of happiness. This is surprising to people because of the relative economic disadvantages of those regions and those areas. It’s already been emphasized the self in the same ways American culture tends to. The emphasis in these cultures is on managing relationships in ways that put others before the self. So, they adjust to the preferences of others via acts as simple as what we’re eating or doing for fun, or they can be as serious as what career we’re pursuing or how we’re going to take care of our loved ones during crisis. These things sound pretty simple, and they are, but that when you get into the details, it starts to be something that is more likely to occur if you’re socialized into thinking of it as normal rather than as an effort that you’d have to put forth. So, for example, getting together with your family on weekends, showing up at the hospital if somebody’s sick and going to baptisms and birthday celebrations or holiday events, those are the things that are really prioritized. It emphasizes having mutual obligations to others. Although this word has a definite negative connotation to obligation in English, it really doesn’t sound so negative in Spanish. And it’s almost a stand-up quality, you know, to meet the duties of what you need to do in your life to be there for the people that need you.” How can describe the Latin Americans?
“Latino Americans and throughout Latin America tend to report higher than expected levels of happiness. This is surprising to people because of the relative economic disadvantages of those regions and those areas. It’s already been emphasized the self in the same ways American culture tends to. The emphasis in these cultures is on managing relationships in ways that put others before the self. So, they adjust to the preferences of others via acts as simple as what we’re eating or doing for fun, or they can be as serious as what career we’re pursuing or how we’re going to take care of our loved ones during crisis. These things sound pretty simple, and they are, but that when you get into the details, it starts to be something that is more likely to occur if you’re socialized into thinking of it as normal rather than as an effort that you’d have to put forth. So, for example, getting together with your family on weekends, showing up at the hospital if somebody’s sick and going to baptisms and birthday celebrations or holiday events, those are the things that are really prioritized. It emphasizes having mutual obligations to others. Although this word has a definite negative connotation to obligation in English, it really doesn’t sound so negative in Spanish. And it’s almost a stand-up quality, you know, to meet the duties of what you need to do in your life to be there for the people that need you.” How can describe the Latin Americans?
- They don’t like money
- Relationships are only relevant when they get something in exchange.
- They really care about relationships.
- They like relationships but not as much as money