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Chino Gender Roles In American Culture

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During Chino’s final year at Art and Design, he was introduced to futurist who Chino wanted to do what they did as well help rekindle culture since it was dead.So they wanted to start everything from a base.Chino felt that even though they were from upper middle class, he still could relate the anger they felt even if Chino was lower class.Chino wanted to reinvent himself so he can have a better life than his parents had.This is when Chino is introduced to being more aware of his environment that he started to notice his community needed to be upgraded. Chino says to himself,”I realized that by reinventing culture, they were reinventing themselves. I wanted to reinvent myself too. I no longer wanted the world to be just my neighborhood anymore”. Chino is starting to realize if he wants to reinvent himself that he would have to change social expectations humans must bond in order to belong to their social group. For example”Most women under this culture are responsible, religious and self sacrificing. They are patience and dedicated in running the household. …show more content…

When talking about gender roles in Hispanic culture, you will likely encounter the fact that mother's’ role is to be passive and must be willing to dedicate themselves for their families.”(source:http://nlcatp.org/gender-roles-in-hispanic-culture/).Which means that in the Latino culture the women are seen to be beas responsible,caring about their religion as a whole,and etc.So they are seen to always trying to give up things and to take care of the family but this

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