Managing Hispanic and Latino Employees

Chapter 3Management and the Hispanic Outlook

The inclusive nature of Catholicism, coupled with miscegenation accepted among the settlers of New Spain, resulted in the survival of indigenous cultures into our own time. In consequence, Latin American societies have centuries of experience in dealing with significant numbers of peoples whose worldview stands in stark contrast to how Europeans see the world, and their place in it. Americans have little experience dealing with indigenous peoples, simply because the United States has sought actively to exclude Native Americans from the mainstream of the nation’s life. Expelled, displaced, and relegated to “sovereign” nations, the impulse to exclude the “other” has been a driving force in American ...