Culture Briefing: Mexico - Your guide to Mexican culture and customs
By Bob Martin
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About this ebook
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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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