Latina women are culturally tied?

I am getting older and feel secure in my own skin now, I think.  I write that with reluctance.  Lately (ha!  a few years now!) I see a not so transparent difference the way Latina women and other women of different nationale carry themselves.  I want to believe that we are all equal, but I find that we aren't.  Sure there are hundreds of insecurities in each of us women, especially after we begin to age just a little.  I can't seem to get the feeling that we Latina women are falling behind in the social aspect of our surrounding society.  Is it bad?  Is there really a difference in , oh say, white women and Latina women?  Should we leave our "old ways" behind?  What are those old ways?  Did our mothers influence us so?