Mexico is our neighbor to the south. The United States was once part of Mexico. A country is a place for tourism and vacations for us, but for Mexicans, it is home. Near the year 7000 B.C., Indians learned to grow plants for food. In time they were able to settle in villages. Those villages grew int...

Music adds cultural continuity to any immigrant group's national, religious, and family celebrations. Like other immigrant groups, Mexican immigrants continued their musical traditions once they moved to the United States. The influence of music traditions from Mexico, particularly regional music, ...

I lived in Dallas, Texas for many years and moved to Fredericksburg, VA about a year ago. In some ways Texas and Virginia are alike, but in many ways they are very different. Both states have diverse cultures, rich history, many museums, prestigious colleges and universities, and an influx of people...

Frida Kahlo Her life "I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down.....The other accident is Diego." Frida Kahlo was born on July 7 1907, in the city of Mexico. However, she claimed that she was born in 1910, the year of the Mexican Revolution because sh...

What would it be like to live in a time of desperation? What would it be like to look up to foreign values instead of 'culturally' your own? I would like to dive into this subject with this paper, to analyze cultural aspects during the latter part of the nineteenth century that show how Latin Amer...