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Although Latino families are at risk of experiencing more ACEs, research suggests that Latino cultural values can be protective factors to ACEs and long-term trauma. [28] Cultural values are the strong beliefs, traditions, and values that Latino holds firmly within their culture. [ 29 ]
The Hispanic paradox is an epidemiological finding that Hispanic Americans tend to have health outcomes that "paradoxically" are comparable to, or in some cases better than, those of their U.S. non-Hispanic White counterparts, even though Hispanics have lower average income and education, higher rates of disability, as well as a higher incidence of various cardiovascular risk factors and ...
The "job-stealing Hispanic" stereotype is also false. According to Pastora San Juan Cafferty and William C. McCready, "a preliminary study of labor market competition among the black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white population (Borjas, 1983) found no evidence that Hispanics had a negative impact on the earnings of the other two groups."
The Hispanic population contributes to Texas having a younger population than the American average, because Hispanic births have outnumbered non-Hispanic white births since the early 1990s. In 2007, for the first time since the early nineteenth century, Hispanics accounted for more than half of all births (50.2%), while non-Hispanic whites ...
Hispanic Heritage Month is from Sept.15-Oct. 15. It honors history and culture while emphasizing the importance of identity and representation.
Even though African-American health status and outcome is slowly improving, black health has generally stagnated or deteriorated compared to whites since 1980. [56] The Tuskegee study was another prime example of health disparities among African Americans. [57] The study showed lack of medical treatment and discrimination among blacks. [57]
Non-Hispanic whites had the highest prevalence of cancer only or lung disease only. [18] Black Americans have an increased risk of death from COVID-19 compared to white Americans. In a study in Michigan in 2020 regarding COVID-19, it is shown that Black people are 3.6 times more likely to die due to COVID-19. [19]
There are stereotypes of various groups of people which live within the United States and contribute to its culture.Worldwide, a disproportionately high number of people know about these stereotypes, due to the transmission of American culture and values via the exportation of American-made films and television shows.