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COPYRIGHT 2004 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
Byline: Mary Sanchez
Machismo gets a bad rap.
Machismo is NOT Latino men subjugating women by cheating on them, verbally abusing or hitting. Real machismo is a man's valor, his respect for his family, his willingness to be a provider and a care-taker. Machismo has nothing to do with dominance.
Yet not a week passes without a reference to Latin men's machismo; the negative kind.
"Oh, Latin men, yes, I've heard how they are," was the refrain at a reception last week.
I've given up countering with the studious explanation of scholars. Many have traced the distortion of machismo to after the conquests of Spain. Stripped of status, men began...
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