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All chapters in this Second Edition of Increasing Multicultural Understanding have been revised and updated, and there are two new chapters on Muslims and Jews in the United States. The author presents a model which helps counsellors understand culturally different groups and the role culture plays in shaping the way people think, feel and act, and which provides the tools necessary for fostering positive and productive relationships among culturally diverse populations.
Puerto Rican Americans
Puerto Rican Americans
Puerto Rican Americans are the only migrants who have come to the mainland of the United States as citizens of this country with the rights of naturalized citizens. Even with these rights, the 2.7 million Puerto Ricans who live in the United States are an extremely devalued group (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1991).
The island of Borinquen, renamed Puerto Rico by the Spanish, is characterized as a mixture of cultural influences, marked by vestiges of the Taino Indians who first inhabited the island, by more than 500 years of Spanish colonialism, and by more than 75 years of domination by the United States. The Spanish influence, with its system of feudal agriculture, the Roman Catholic Church, language, and civil law, ...
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