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Culture Briefing: Mexico - Your guide to Mexican culture and customs
Culture Briefing: Mexico - Your guide to Mexican culture and customs
Culture Briefing: Mexico - Your guide to Mexican culture and customs
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Culture Briefing: Mexico provides current, in-depth information found in no other single publication to help you understand the culture, customs, values and beliefs of the Mexican people. Whether traveling to Mexico, working on a class paper or doing business with the Mexicans, you'll find Culture Briefing: Mexico an invaluable resource. If you're traveling to the country, supplement your travel guide with Culture Briefing: Mexico. It will let you enrich your trip, giving you knowledge about Mexican etiquette and traditions — and more financial success when traveling on business. You'll also receive the information you need to help you feel comfortable in what might otherwise be a strange environment, including a list of do's and don'ts. You'll gain the wisdom necessary to talk intelligently with the Mexicans, discussing the life they live, deciphering and interpreting how they think and behave. No longer will you run the risk of embarrassment when in conversation with the Mexican people because you brought up a taboo subject, couldn’t comment on an aspect of local life or knew nothing of their form of government. With Culture Briefing: Mexico you'll discover the character, values, beliefs and customs of the Mexicans. You'll learn of their artistic endeavors and political ways. You'll find out about their home, family and religious life as well as how they make a living, educate their children and spend their leisure time. You'll also discover the problems the Mexican people face and see how they handle them.
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LanguageEnglish
PublisherBob Martin
Release dateJul 8, 2013
ISBN9781301525645
Culture Briefing: Mexico - Your guide to Mexican culture and customs
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Bob Martin

Bob Martin, creator of the Culture Briefing series, has lived in Asia, Africa and Europe. He has also written and edited college textbooks and training lessons for the travel industry, newsletters for travel consumers and travel articles for newspapers and magazines, including: Accent magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Buffalo News, The Christian Science Monitor, The Miami Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Off Duty magazine, The Orlando Sentinel and Travel-Holiday magazine. Currently he writes articles and e-books in the areas of travel, exploration and adventure.

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    Culture Briefing - Bob Martin

    Culture Briefing: Mexico

    Your guide to Mexican culture and customs

    By Bob Martin

    Published by the Geotravel Research Center at Smashwords

    Copyright 2013-2015 Bob Martin

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    INTRODUCTION

    Fast Facts

    HISTORY

    THE MEXICAN PEOPLE

    Customs and Ways

    Do’s and Don’ts

    Conducting Business

    Subcultures

    Language

    HOME AND FAMILY

    Marriage

    The Role of Women

    Names

    Health and Welfare

    Dress

    Food and Dining

    EDUCATING THE CHILDREN

    RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

    MAKING A LIVING

    Industry

    NAFTA

    Agriculture

    PASSING LEISURE TIME

    Festivals

    Sports

    THE ARTS

    Handicrafts

    Music

    Dance

    Literature

    Painting

    POLITICAL WAYS

    Parties

    USEFUL INTERNET LINKS

    Mexico News Sources

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    INTRODUCTION

    Mexico is Latin America’s third-largest country, after Brazil and Argentina, and the world’s most populous Spanish-speaking nation. It also has one of the world’s most populous cities, its capital — Mexico City.

    Mexico is home to the oldest continuous culture in the Americas. Before the Spanish arrived, the land had been populated for centuries by renowned ancient civilizations — Olmec, Toltec, Aztec and Mayan among others.

    These peoples have not disappeared completely. Today, their descendants still populate the country, and mestizos — people of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry — make up the bulk of the country’s population. In southern areas of Mexico some communities are pure Indian.

    In the last half of the 20th century, Mexico went from a rural, undemocratic and protectionist country to an urban nation opening to democracy and with a market-oriented economy.

    The country has a large and growing gap between rich and poor. Many Mexicans, primarily the indigenous population and those living in the south and in rural areas — regions which the government neglects — lack the basic necessities and comforts of life. They live in poverty with little or no access to health care, education and employment.

    Mexico also has a serious problem with organized crime, particularly transnational drug cartels. The country is suffering an ongoing drug war involving rival cartels fighting each other as well as government forces. While the drug cartels have been operating for decades, they have become increasingly powerful. And their violence has worsened as they struggle for control of trafficking routes into the United States. An estimated sixteen thousand Mexicans died in drug-related killings in 2011. Multiple mutilated bodies are often left in public. The gruesome scenes are intended to terrorize and enhance a cartel’s reputation for extreme violence, which is considered an asset. The cartels control some 90 percent of the illicit drugs entering the United States, generating estimated wholesale earnings somewhere between US$13 billion and US$49 billion annually.

    In recent decades, Mexico’s population has ballooned. Although population growth has now slowed, the rapid

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