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Traditional Mayan practices have long promoted unique levels of family harmony: But what effect is globalization having?

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New study shows how some aspects of family interaction among Indigenous people in Guatemala have fundamentally shifted with rapid globalization.

University of California - Santa Cruz psychologist Barbara Rogoff has been working with Mayan communities in San Pedro la Laguna , Guatemala for five decades .

Current Mayan families are becoming more like European American middle-class families, who, under similar circumstances, often interacted in ways that left out at least one of the three participants.

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