Latino Culture Essay

The author of this paper will address Latino’s beliefs, logic, concepts, and modality’s as discussed by Diller (2015) and the National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families. Latino’s are found in all communities in America, they have migrated here or have been born in the United States. Regardless of their place of origin, they are a community, familial, religious group that maintains its self of culture oftentimes passing on their practices and beliefs intergenerationally. The difficulty in discussing and trying to grasp Latinos is that they are a vast group with subgroup’s. Therefore, explicit survey’s and literature can be informative, however, there is an ocean of differences between them as well as no difference, this becomes a conundrum for those who wish to understand the culture of a Latino.

The largest microcultural group in the United States is the Hispanic/Latino culture. The culture makes up over 15 percent of the United States total population. Approximately, forty-seven million Hispanics/Latinos are currently living in the United

This cultural behavior leads them to be more concerned with the present than with the future a (p.30 toolkit) Event time is real time to Latinos, who have a tendency to be relaxed and flexible about time, especially in less formal occasions. Moreover, the Latino culture places value on ancestors as well as past events, which help shape present and future events. In addition, Latinos respect the concept of Cyclical time, “time is viewed neither as linear nor event-relationship related, but as cyclic. Each day the sun rises and sets, the seasons follow one another, the heavenly bodies revolve around us, people grow old and die” (Lewis, 2014). Nevertheless, as Diller states, Whites mistakenly interpret the cultural view of time as indifference or symptomatic of a lack of work