El Machismo Essay

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Vironia Qaryaqos
Raymundo Quezada
CCS 119
10 December, 2017
El Machismo All men have wanted to feel and look like a machismo at some point in their life. The topic of machismo is not addressed often and does not contain enough resources and articles about it. It is what many men want to be and what many women want to see in a man. Women feel attracted to men when they feel like he has the ability to protect them from any kind of harm even when they are not generally in any type of danger. El machismo is translated to the male chauvinism. Machismo basically means, “a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness; an assumptive attitude that virility, courage, strength, and entitlement to dominate are attributes or concomitants of masculinity” (“Dictionary.com”). …show more content…

In the legitimate arrangement of Roman law in Latin Mediterranean social orders, ladies were under one of the accompanying three sorts of lawful expert: patria potestas (fatherly power), manus (subordination to a spouse's lawful power), or tutela (guardianship). Patria potestas is as yet pervasive in some Latin American nations where the men are considered as bosses or leaders of the family units (paterfamilias) and have total specialist and prevalence over spouse and kids in practically all lawful and social circumstances. The sociocultural ancestry of Latin American machismo is from Andalusian Spain and mostly from the Saracen Moors who ruled southern Spain from 711 to 1492 CE. The juncture of Iberian, Roman, and Islamic societies that converged in Spain developed into an entangled code of gallantry and male respect with the ascent of knighthood. A type of machismo some consider to be sure indicates a man as leader of the family unit for a whole more distant family, and this incorporates dependable and defensive parts and also the instillment of social estimations of familismo, dignity, respect, greatness, and trust. Familismo alludes to solid conventional family esteems that underscore association, alliance, participation, correspondence, and

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