Will an invite back to your hotel lead to a night of passion or a slap in the face and a condemnation to the fires of hell for your sinning ways?

Latin America, though, is rightly renowned for its fiery passions and beautiful people, and to miss out on this side of the region’s culture through fear is far more unforgivable than embarrassing yourself with culturally inappropriate body language.

Love, whether a life-long partnership or a night-long fling, is never easy.

Throw in a language barrier and culture gap and you’re lost in a strange new game with strange new rules.

At various moments in your childhood, certain things pop up that make you realize your family is a liiiiittle different from those of your non-Latino and non-immigrant friends.

Which leads you to wonder if you could ever manage to have a non-latino S. Until one day, it happens: You fall for a Jordan instead of a Joaquín, a Jessica instead of a Yessica. ” “Because Hispanics can be White.” “Why don’t you just call me American?

Regardless, Jane started navigating the dating scene and it led to an interesting question: Why hasn’t Jane had a long-term relationship with a Latino guy?

Image by mutant_happiness Do not interrupt a Mexican man watching football. It’s perfectly normal for a Mexican man at age 25 (or 50 something) to still be asking his mom to cook him some quesadillas.Let’s look at a few of Jane’s past paramours and posit, why shy away from a Latino beau?Even her prospects last night saw her flirting with another white guy.Is that hand on your knee a flirtatious come-on, or a culturally distinct approach to personal space?Is splitting the bill a nod to equal gender relations, an unforgivable challenge to your date’s masculinity or the sign of an incorrigible tight-wad?