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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm west Indian and this is something I've always wondered. Immigrants from Africa, Middle Eastern, Asian push college especially STEM for their children.

When it comes to women studying stem it's mainly the women from countries that dont have much opportunities for women. Think arab, african, middle east, indian except latin america.

There was even a study showing that the less opportunities a girl has the more she is likely to study STEM except for Latin American women. I would like to know the history of education in Latin American nations to understand this. Even Chile which is a homogenous nation and is nowhere near the top at education.

My friend is a professor and he told me that Latin American parents tend to push labour but college will always be seen a superior in this nation.

I've wondered about this.[/quote]

I’m Hispanic and do not understand your diatribe.

One female cousin is a physician and another a microbiologist. My aunt a pharmacist. Another aunt was a nurse. My cousin’s daughter is pursuing a graduate physics degree from a top university.

No, we didn’t all go into sciences. There are a few educators and a few who went into policy / law. All female.

There are plenty of women who go into scientific fields in Latin America. Your example - Chile - actually had a female president (before the U.S. of course) who was a physician.
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Umm only 15% of hispanics in the US have a bachelor's degree. DCUM only brings out the arrogant types who really don't represent the majority.[/quote]

DCUM brings out the racist types. The *majority* of non-Hispanic whites and of African-Americans in the U.S. do not have college degrees either.

I posted the above and my college-educated parent spent their life making college achievable for low-income Hispanics in the U.S.  The assumption that Hispanics are uneducated or that there aren’t women in STEM in the U.S. or Latin America is ludicrous. Yes, the percentage of Hispanics in the US with higher education is about half of that of non-Hispanic whites, but most non-Hispanic whites in the U.S. don’t have college degrees either. There are tons of Hispanics in the US at all economic and educational levels and the best we can do is help each other make education achievable - not continue to perpetuate the stereotypes or make it sound like not having a college-educated parent is such an anomaly.

There are factors here that have been identified which are important - information and access to financial aid, working while attending college, even just believing that a certain degree is attainable. But if you cannot find those examples in your own family, look for them outside your family. They exist within Hispanic circles and there are groups (Hispanic Student Fund, for example) and scholarships (Gates Millenium) that help.

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