LA has a reputation as being more family oriented and collectivist then the US. Is this true and if so do you like having a more collectivist culture
LA has a reputation as being more family oriented and collectivist then the US. Is this true and if so do you like having a more collectivist culture
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But they don’t even have sidewalks. (I mean, theres some in West Hollywood but that connect business)
Next time use LATAM* I read that as Los Angeles…
I’d say definitely more family oriented, generations of the same family live in the same household lot of the times. When it comes to career, and productivity I like the individualism culture from the US but everything else seems miserable
“LA” typically refers to Los Angeles, not Latin America. There is no foundation about Latin America as a whole being more family-oriented or collectivist than the US.
I would say yes. Being poorer usually means larger families and children leaving home later
LA being collectivist lol, ask them about indigentes and you’ll get some variation of it’s their own fault
It is true, for the most part. There isn’t that urge to kick your kids out of the house once they turn 18, un fact sometimes it is a hassle to get your parents to let go of their daughters and sons. And before anyone comes with their exceptions to this situation, yes, it doesn’t happen 100% of the time.
I do appreciate this aspect of our culture. Family is important. It gats be annoying at times, but I’d choose it over the alternative any day.
Maybe and no
I would agree with that, especially when it comes to extended family.
I’m not particularly fond of the collectivist/individualist distinction. There’s too often too much of a very silly political ideology embroiled into it. However, it is true that things like children tending to live longer with their parents and stronger relationships with extended family tend to be more common in LatAm than in the US. But that also varies a lot. The Southern Cone is very different in this respect to Central America, for instance, and I don’t think the source of that is necessarily cultural, but historical, economic and institutional (urban/rural, secularisation, educational degrees, etc).
AFAIK Los Angeles is in the US?
By family oriented you mean the meant places where whole families are murdered by narcos? Or places where whole families are starving like in Venezuela and Haiti?
Latin America is a vast area with multiple cultures and countries. If you pick a singular country this question would still be rather broad but more manageable as you could look at the trajectory of the two completely different subjects (family and collectivism) in the two different countries (the US and the specific Latin America country). When you try to compare one country (the US) with a region of the world with a bunch of countries, well it just becomes nonsensical.
Yet another case of comparing the USA with 30 something countries
I’m amazed at the goal of most Americans to have a big house with everything in it and never need to leave.
I would say that majority of traditional Catholics countries have a reputitation of being more collectivist than traditional Protestants, specially Lutheran and Calvinist countries.
Probably the old form of religions affect greatly the sociological attitude of the ethnic groups.
I was about to say no it doesn’t lol. Latin America sure absolutely, not Los Angeles. LA county in USA may seem like a family haven in the suburban parts, but the traffic congestion because of all the shenanigans is the reason why it can be unbearable. Let alone, it’s not really the most pedestrian friendly as well in say the suburbs, roads are just way stretched out and you need a car unless you are in the heart of Los Angeles.
You’re comparing one country to multiple countries with different cultures. “Latam has a reputation”? Which country in Latam has a reputation?
Family oriented yes; collectivist no
I would say that Latin America isn’t family-oriented; Northern Europe and Anglo America are the ones that are abnormally individualist compared to the rest of the world.
LATAM is not a monoculture.
It will depend on the country. I think in here we’re rather individualistic
I don’t romanticize collectivism. In real life its is never altruistic or for the good of society as a whole. It’s tribalism: people try to get all the benefits for their extended family, friends and collaborators no matter if they fuck everybody else.
Tribes cover up for their members’ errors and crimes as long as they don’t affect the interests of the tribe and especially if they benefit the tribe. Society ends up being an all out war of small groups with little to no respect for rules or each other, because only the members of the own tribe deserve real respect. Eventually, when one of those tribes prevails over the others, abuses become the norm and become more and more cruel.
In individualistic societies individual can be quite powerful, but rarely as much or more than society or communities as a whole, so people are way more aware of their own vulnerability and understand that rules and respect for other people’s rights are actually for their own good.