2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/45144We discuss the idea of approximate flavor symmetries. Relations between approximate flavor symmetries and natural flavor conservation and democracy models is explored. Implications for neutrino physics are also discussed.10 pages, LBL-35530, short talk given at the Second IFT workshop on Yukawa couplings and the origin of mass, Feb 11-13, 1994, University of Florida, GainesvilleHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext