AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Latinos tend to be highly group-oriented. A strong emphasis is placed on family as the major source of one’s identity and protection against the hardships of life. This sense of family belonging is intense and limited to family and close friends.

Detailed explanation-2: -What Is a Collectivist Culture? In cross-cultural psychology, a collectivist culture is a community that prioritizes the group over the individual. Collectivistic cultures emphasize personality traits and attributes like cohesion, harmony, duty, interdependence, achievement of group goals, and conflict avoidance.

Detailed explanation-3: -A common example of a collectivist group is a family. Families typically work together to help each other survive and thrive. Parents provide for the entire family rather than providing for only themselves. Once the children are old enough, they might contribute to the family group by doing chores or cooking dinner.

Detailed explanation-4: -Collectivism is a political theory associated with communism. More broadly, it is the idea that people should prioritize the good of society over the welfare of the individual. Collectivism-so closely related to the word collection-has to do with political theories that put the group before the individual.

Detailed explanation-5: -In collectivist cultures, family members identify closely with one another and often make decisions for the family as a whole rather than for the self. Sacrifice, honor and loyalty are some of the core values of such families and cultures.