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  2. Tequio - Wikipedia

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    Tequio de reconstrucción de un aula del jardín de niños de San Juan Achiutla dañado por el sismo de 2017, Oaxaca, México, 2021. Madres de familia haciendo tequio pintando el jardín de niños . San Juan Achiutla, Oaxaca, México, 2021.

  3. Demonyms for the United States - Wikipedia

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    In Spanish, the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (English: Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts), published by the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, recommends the genderless term estadounidense (literally United Statesian), because americano/a also refers to all the inhabitants of the continents of ...

  4. Costumbrismo - Wikipedia

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    Some of the work of Goya can be seen as prefiguring costumbrismo, especially as practiced in Madrid.Here, the Fight with Cudgels, one of Goya's Black Paintings.. Antecedents to costumbrismo can be found as early as the 17th century (for example in the work of playwright Juan de Zabaleta) and the current becomes clearer in the 18th century (Diego de Torres Villarroel, José Clavijo y Fajardo ...

  5. Nacirema - Wikipedia

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    Nacirema ("American" spelled backwards) is a term used in anthropology and sociology in relation to aspects of the behavior and society of citizens of the United States of America. The neologism attempts to create a deliberate sense of self-distancing in order that American anthropologists might look at their own culture more objectively.

  6. Latin America - Wikipedia

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    The term Latin America was first introduced in 1856 at a Paris conference titled Initiative of America: Idea for a Federal Congress of the Republics (Iniciativa de la América. Idea de un Congreso Federal de las Repúblicas). [9] Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao coined the term to unify countries with shared cultural and linguistic heritage.

  7. América Tropical: Oprimida y Destrozada por los Imperialismos

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    Siqueiros completely ignored the institutional project request in pursuit of his own unique artistic idea by creating a mural, which turned out to be one of the most controversial art pieces in Los Angeles history, Tropical America (full name: América Tropical: Oprimida y Destrozada por los Imperialismos, or Tropical America: Oppressed and ...

  8. American (word) - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used.American is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the Americas (also called the Western Hemisphere), ultimately derived from the name of the Florentine explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512).

  9. American Dream - Wikipedia

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    Freelance writer James Truslow Adams popularized the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book Epic of America: [28] But there has been also the American dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for ...