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| low socioeconomic status (low SES) |
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| those persons who are of low social class and status and experience a cultural deprivation and low income |
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| an individual's ability to succeed in spite of adversity and hardship |
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| colonies or districts of Spanish-speaking people |
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| devotion to one's family and respect for one's parents and grandparents |
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| Spanish term for maleness or manhood |
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| the belief that one cannot change one's destiny or fate |
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| in Puerto Rican society, the implication that a woman finds her greatest satisfaction through motherhood |
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| descent through the mother's line |
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| an emphasis on the family rather than on the individual |
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| people who leave their native land to come to live in the United States for any reason |
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| people who leave their native land to come to live in the Unites States because they are fleeing political oppression or death |
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