Latino being any country that was kind of conquered by the Spanish,
versus Hispanic which are countries that identify particularly speaking Spanish.
So for example Brazilians a lot of times are considered Latino, but
not necessarily Hispanic.
And also we should make a caveat here that, when we talk about Central and
South America, a lot of times some people consider the Caribbean.
So Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico part of that, and
other times it's not considered part of that.
Because there's other geographical political implications to Central and
South America that aren't necessarily present in the Caribbean.
Machismo is essentially this idea that the man is in power, and
in terms of a hierarchy, he is over the woman.
So that really translates across the board,
if you think about just everyday dynamics.
Usually the man in the room would be the one making the final decision,
irrelevant of what the female presenting person would be saying.
And again, this is somewhat influenced also with religious ideas.
I mean a lot of times when you, and I can speak for Puerto Rico,
when you talk about family structure and gender structures in Puerto Rico.
You will usually see this concept of that there's God, and there's man,
and then there's women, and then the children, in that hierarchy.
The problem being with machismo is that it leads to a lot of allowed
violence from a man to a woman, because it is understood that they are superior to.
And that's solely based on, I guess, genitalia.