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Deutsch touched on something in her first chapter that was in the other readings. In Guttierez's work, he says that the upperclasses married more than the lower or landless classes. The landless really had no need to since marriage was so often a business contract. Deutsch talks about how the elite classes had more intermarriages than the lower classes. Again, this was for business more than anything, but the numbers were declining as many Hispanics refused to intermarry. It seems that preserving one's culture and way of life was more important than making it in the Anglocized world. - Celia | Deutsch touched on something in her first chapter that was in the other readings. In Guttierez's work, he says that the upperclasses married more than the lower or landless classes. The landless really had no need to since marriage was so often a business contract. Deutsch talks about how the elite classes had more intermarriages than the lower classes. Again, this was for business more than anything, but the numbers were declining as many Hispanics refused to intermarry. It seems that preserving one's culture and way of life was more important than making it in the Anglocized world. - Celia | ||
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| + | Reading all of this, and being a member of a Mexican-American family myself, it's nice to see where my roots were all those years ago. I can definitely say that the importance of the woman in the household is still very much the case. While they may technically be patriarchal households, you can bet your bottom dollar that the woman slaving away in the kitchen making floutas, empanandas and tortillas has a pretty vital say in what happens in the household. I find it funny that growing up, disobeying mom and dad was one thing, but if I were to cross Grandma Sara, I better have either a deathwish or a pretty solid reason for doing so. You don't cross a woman who cooks with habanero. -Cash | ||
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