Latin Americans and education
Latinos/as tend to be younger, live below the poverty line, are less
educated and more consistently unemployed or relegated to unskilled and
semiskilled jobs. Many Latino/a American families have a lower
educational level and are at risk for dropping out of school. They have
less experience with the educational system and how it functions. Many
do not speak English. Many families are spiritual and stress an
importance of family, nuclear and extended, referred to as familialismo.
The culture is highly structured and traditional in respect to sex
roles.
Latinos/as American characteristics include valuing of conformity, obedience, deference to authority, and subservience to the autocratic attitudes of external organizations and institutions.
Latinos/as American characteristics include valuing of conformity, obedience, deference to authority, and subservience to the autocratic attitudes of external organizations and institutions.
