Dutiful Daughters

The spanish culture, particullary Peurto Rican culture daughters are expected to be the caretakers of everyone. They are taught this from a young age. The concept "marinismo" is the idea that little girls are brought up with in the spanish culture. From the youg age daughters are breed to understand that they will one day take care of the entire family and they will have to put everyone before themselves. What they are also taught is that their brothers will not have this responsibility. instead they are able to get an education and start their own families. in my opinion this concept is not fair and it is completly sexist. yes parents should be taken care of as they get older, but it should be a joint effort. if a son and daughter are both present they should both take equal responsibilities. They have the same mother who carried both of them for nine months so, all children owe mothers and even fathers some respect. so, daughters should not have full responsibility for their parents. it should be an equal responsibility among all children no matter what the gender may be.