I recently came across a couple of articles that addressed America’s path to a minority-majority population in the next fifteen to twenty years. Amid these articles, I came across discussions of multicultural healthcare from a cultural perspective as well as language. Some of the items mentioned within these articles were estimates that 62% of Hispanic/Latino […]
I recently came across a short and interesting article in my inbox that caught my attention. This article was about the downturn in the U.S. economy (especially in the restaurant industry) due to the Pandemic and Americans eating at home more often. While it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to make this obvious connection and […]
I’ve seen comparisons of the Covid virus with the title of the novel by Gabriel García Márquez. I’ve also noticed a number of questions from people asking what exactly that means and what the title refers to. Typically, the responses I hear are “Oh, it was a movie, a love story” or “It’s an old […]
“Sana, sana, colita de rana…” Being in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic made me think about a blog post I wrote a number of years ago about Latino healthcare called El Remediosphere. In that post I wrote about my mother (raised on a rancho in the Mexican state of Sinaloa) and what was her […]
There is nothing new about younger generations taking identity and their future into their own hands. After all, this is America, the land of opportunity after all. Cultural identity is usually at or towards the top of our initiatives. This not only redefines America, but it defines how we see each other and how we […]