Studying the Puerto Rican population in San Juan and New York, Oscar Lewis linked their relatively low social standing to a cultural orientation he called

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Oscar Lewis linked the relatively low social standing of the Puerto Rican population in San Juan and New York to a cultural orientation he called fatalism. This cultural orientation is characterized by a sense of powerlessness, lack of control over one's life, and the belief that one's life is predetermined by fate.

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