Latino Churches: Faith, Family, and Ethnicity in the Second GenerationCrane's work shows how a significant number of Latino youth born in the rural Midwest have stayed involved in church out of ethnic and family solidarity. Although these youths do not show the same zeal and enthusiasm for certain traditions held dear by their parents, they have kept the church as a vital social space for expressing their own spirituality and ethnic identity. Latino churches, in turn, are effective in shaping the lives of youth because they function both as supporters and extensions of the family. The family-congregation nexus combines to enable a more selective form of acculturation that maintains a high-level of family cohesion and linguistic-cultural continuity. Crane's study shows that religion continues to increase the diversity of society rather than facilitate the "incorporation" of ethnic groups into a cultural "mainstream." |
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... Barbara's . The reasons he gives are to be with those with whom he shares a common culture , ( " to be with my people " ) , and to expose his children to that culture ( " because its in Spanish " ) . Fernando's rhetoric about language ...
... Barbara's . The reasons he gives are to be with those with whom he shares a common culture , ( " to be with my people " ) , and to expose his children to that culture ( " because its in Spanish " ) . Fernando's rhetoric about language ...
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... Barbara's is the Mexican version . The use of traditional instruments and language combine to make St. Barbara's a culturally familiar place for Latinos of Mexican origin , a place where the " thin thread of memory " connects the past ...
... Barbara's is the Mexican version . The use of traditional instruments and language combine to make St. Barbara's a culturally familiar place for Latinos of Mexican origin , a place where the " thin thread of memory " connects the past ...
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... Barbara's as one of the hubs of a larger " transnational community of memory ” in which cultural events are enacted in Michigan and Michoacan simultaneously . This is also very likely why misa en español is crowed with young single men ...
... Barbara's as one of the hubs of a larger " transnational community of memory ” in which cultural events are enacted in Michigan and Michoacan simultaneously . This is also very likely why misa en español is crowed with young single men ...
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