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What is machismo culture in hispanic communities,
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toxic masculinity can be found at any
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culture in the hispanic culture specifically,
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there is a word used to express strong or aggressive masculine pride.
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Further feeling toxic masculinity called machismo.
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An article found from psychology today
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Shows that one in five Hispanic men will not reach the age of 50 in the Americas
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due to the issues relating to toxic masculinity.
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The complex is a social behavior in which latino males exhibit an overbearing
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attitude to which anyone in a position he perceives as inferior to his.
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This causes the male to demand complaint subservience.
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Why is it a problem
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in latino culture?
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Men are instantly put on a pedestal for being the stronger gender.
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This causes the thought and nearly all hispanic men
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that tells them it is okay to blame the female presence and
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make them feel like it is their fault for anything that goes wrong
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even in just casual conversation, A man
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will make the woman feel inferior or even
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talk about hitting their wife or girlfriend in front
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of others because they felt like that they
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weren't doing what they were told by them correctly
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or even sexually harassing a woman because they
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felt that they were entitled to do so.
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According to the findings done by park dot org,
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67% of 18-24 year old males felt compelled
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to display hyper masculine behavior in tough situations.
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People who enforced toxic masculinity craved microaggressions
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to them and have them feel the violence
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that was committed against them was their fault.
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This can lead to domestic violence.
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Impact on the victims of machismo
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at an early age grows and women alike.
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And hispanic cultures are taught to accept cat
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calling and sexual assault as forms of flattery
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rather than forms of harassment.
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By those imposing these damaging ideas.
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Society successfully limits the agency that all women
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have over ship over their own bodies.
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Since hispanic women are taught to machismo is okay,
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they are more likely to stay in domestic abuse situations
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and teach their kids the same as the cycle continues.
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The effect that machismo has unmet
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setting impossible and unrealistic standards on
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hispanic men behaviors commonly referred to
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as toxic masculinity are contributing into high rates of suicide homicide,
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addiction and road traffic accidents
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as well as chronic and non communicable
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diseases among men,
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boys and hispanic cultures are taught by a very
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young age to not cry because men don't cry.
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The telling of this can be very damaging because it can lead
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to men shutting down their emotions later on in their lives.
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In Latina cultures,
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Hispanic men are taught that they are expected to be
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head of the household and never asked for help,
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especially from a woman
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Research from the jewish Social service Men projects
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discusses that
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fear of responders
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agree that men should have many sexual partners
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as they can.
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25%
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avoid household work and child care, 23% and use violence to get respect. 20
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how to prevent machismo
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latino,
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man should educate one songs about the
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differences of masculinity and being a leader,
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learn to be vulnerable and talk about what is bothering them.
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Instead of bearing it deep down and having it turn into
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a repressed anger where they can blow up on somebody later
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stop showing to be macho by producing
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by reproducing masculine attributes such as violence,
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dominance, aggression and toughness.