Tegucigalpa - Post Report Question and Answers
Are there problems with ethnic, race/racial minorities or religious prejudices? Gender equality?
There is an obvious hierarchy in regard to visual color representation in the Honduran government. The individuals in power do not represent the shades of the people you will see locally. Colorism is noticeable here and it has translated into interactions at the “American” school in particular with the children of the Honduran elite and some of the embassy students. Members of the community have also had some interesting experiences as well. - Mar 2024
Not that I've noticed. - Jan 2024
Gender equality is not a thing here. Male drivers try to bully women drivers out of their lane, etc. Don't be bullied. It's fun to watch them go nearly apoplectic because a woman did not cede her place in this world for them. - Aug 2023
I understand some for African-Americans. - Feb 2022
It seems very sexist against women. - Jul 2018
Women are subject to lots of harassment on the street. Gay and transgender people are hassled and threatened (though the worst abuses are in poor neighborhoods, not in posh expat quarters). Ladino Hondurans are subtly prejudiced against indigenous people and blacks; black expats may inhabit a space between the excessive deference Hondurans give to foreigners, and their reticence towards Honduran blacks. - May 2018
Big gender equality issues. This is a man's country. - May 2018
Not really, but Hondurans have a more regressive view on the role of women. - Apr 2018
Gender equity??? Not a chance in this place. - Jun 2016
- Not much, but the Latino men do honk, leer and cat call at women. - Feb 2016
There are some nascent issues in these areas here, but they are not extremely obvious or overpowering to someone who is living as an expat. - Jul 2015
There are under the surface racial issues. There are stark gender inequalities for sure, though not as many as one would imagine. No religious problems from what I've seen. - Dec 2014
Not significantly. - Oct 2014
Not that I've seen but people are fairly conservative here. - Aug 2014
I don't believe so. - Mar 2014
Generally it's ok. - Jan 2014
Typical Latin machismo. - Jun 2013
Not that I've seen. - Nov 2009
