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Part III

Part III. Key Groups of the Macomb County Target Communities. Muslim Groups.

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Part III

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  1. Part III Key Groups of the Macomb County Target Communities

  2. Muslim Groups • Prevalence of use and problems: Generally low especially for Arabs, Bangladeshis, and other Asian Muslims because of religious prohibition of the use of alcohol.Substantially higher for Albanians and Bosnians who have a European ethnicity and who come from highly secularized societies in which former Communist governments suppressed religion, brutally in the case of Albania.

  3. Muslim Groups • Protective factors: • Strong family, community and ethnic ties. • Religious sanctions. • Risk factors: • Acculturation and secularization. • Lack of community mechanisms to address issues. • Current response is to ignore and hide such problems.

  4. Polish-Americans and other Slavic Groups • Prevalence of use and problems: Moderate to high. A culture that sanctions and approves of drinking and traditions of heavy drinking in communal and festive settings. Alcohol featured at virtually all social and familial occasions.

  5. Polish-Americans and other Slavic Groups • Protective factors: • A society based on honor and shame that shows disapproval of public problem drinking. • Strong family ties. • Strong religious ties which are protective especially for women. • A small but effective professional and clerical cohort that has experience in dealing with these issues and organizations such as Piast in the target areas that can organize prevention strategies.

  6. Polish-Americans and other Slavic Groups • Risk factors: • Strong cultural traditions of drinking. • Separation from friends and family in the case of immigrants.

  7. Hispanic Americans • Prevalence and use: Moderate to high. Cultural traditions of drinking and practice among some males of heavy drinking.

  8. Hispanic Americans • Protective factors: • Drinking traditions countered by strong abstention tradition among women. • Religious faith. • Strong family and community ties. • Social service and religious agencies which seek to address the problem drinking and prevention.

  9. Hispanic Americans • Risk factors: • Low SES (for males). • Unemployment (for males). • Acculturation, occupational and social mobility (for females).

  10. African-Americans • Prevalence and use: Moderate. Religious and cultural traditions that range from acceptance to disapproval of alcohol use.

  11. African-Americans • Protective factors: • Religion • Strong and positive ethnic identity. • High rates of abstention. • Resources and clerical and professional assistance to address problem drinking and prevention are available and many are faith based.

  12. African-Americans • Risk factors: • Low SES. • Unemployment • Lack of religious orientation and participation in religious activities.

  13. Italian-Americans • Prevalence and use: Moderate. Non-Temperance cultural tradition of incorporation of alcohol to the fabric of daily life.

  14. Italian-Americans • Protective factors: • Culture • Traditions of moderation • Strong supportive family structure • Strong religious faith

  15. Italian-Americans • Risk factors: • Acculturation to American drinking norms • Enabling behavioral responses from close knit families to problem drinking.

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