Can anyone offer some insight on an observation of jealousy?

Question

I grew up in an area that is a predominately hispanic culture. Why have I noticed a large sum of hispanic men seem possessive and over jealous? I am two or more ethnic backgrounds with a hispanic Grandmother and this type of behavior is not in my family, so I'm confused. Why does this seem to be true?

Answer 1

Excellent question; you're very observant....  in my observations, I've noticed that hispanic mothers exert a great deal of influence, almost overt "control" over their children, particularly their sons.  This could be translated into their relationships with other women, where the men become possessive... a reflection of a mother-son relationship....  Men who are possessive and jealous reveal that emotionally they are not confident....  it also signals lack of maturity;  I would be turned off by a man who is both possessive or jealous...  means he's not ready to have a relationship with a woman.  And, in old Hispanic culture, possessive and jealousy were often misrepresented in theatre, movies and especially soap operas as meaning "love" for the person, even today's soap operas have it, actors in those soaps display these traits casually, and another trait is obsession--men who seem fixated on a woman who does not correspond to them....    (I'll probably get a few lashings here for expressing my observations....)

Answer 2

You know Dave, this question had an air of humor or familiarity about it, so I wore this texas cowgirl hat for the occassion. :D   LOL!

...seems to me that you may be....'may' just be poking fun at a situation a friend of yours 'may' be in.....hmmm.

...but for the sake of humanity and to inform you of the rediculous behavior of men...I will answer. In my opinion, Men, regardless of race or nationality, if they have insecurity and are just plain immature....will behave like this. Even though the woman in their life is a good faithful woman, he expresses the fear of another man taking her away from him....  :(   yet he himself finds it ok to have female friends, it makes the woman wonder if he trusts himself? and pissed off for the most part.

I don't know enough hispanic men to rule that it is the way they all are.

The bottom line is...either they are very intelligent or have very small penises. Only an intellectual person can understand that. LOLLL

good question...what is the answer?

........you should email me the answer. :D

Answer 3

I believe it's an over generalization on your part, and maybe you're projecting that assumption onto them?  Hard to say.  I live in America and I am a minority in my neighborhood and I really have no desire to observe more than I have to.  I feel like I'm in the freakin' twilight zone in a foreign country.  

Since you don't like my answer, I'll go out on a limb and further alienate myself:  here's my real take.  Seems that with the EXPLODING population of hispanics (esp in America) there's more than enough single available women for each male.   The women of the world your speak of - IMO - should be more possessive b/c MY observation is that very few are particularly gorgeous or "stand-out."  They mostly do the same thing:  breed, cook, kind of take care of the kids, work the system and spend money.  The men take the risks to make a living (often with an illegal status) and are out there laying themselves bare to a competitive job world.

There.  Sorry.