The importance of ethnic identity in coping with a variety of life situations, particularly those of a stressful nature, has been a major focus of current literature. While identity development is a complex task for all people; it is particularly complicated for people belonging to ethnic groups, due to their membership both in an ethnic group and in the mainstream culture(s). For this reason, very often we may find adolescents with more than one ethnic identity.The people of Latin America are from a variety of ethnic groups and races, making the region one of the most diverse in the world.The specific ethnicity of the group varies from country to country throughout Latin America. Many have a predominance of European-Amerindian(American-Indian) or Mestizo.
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