Latinx Familismo & Setting Personal Boundaries
Merging Your Collectivistic Roots with an Individualistic Society Growing up, it’s likely that your mother and father—and your Abuela, Tio, and older primo—spoke of the importance of family, of supporting each other, and of staying united. La familia es todo, they would say—and repeat—sometimes sounding reminiscent of a direct warning. The underlying message likely became …