Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mexico is the nation of the Americas with the highest number of living languages in the early years of the 21st century; despite this cultural wealth, there is a technological disparity in education for indigenous peoples compared to other ethnic groups living in the country.
During the 300-year rule by the Spanish, Mexico was a crossroads for the people and cultures of Europe and America, with minor influence from Asia. Starting in the late 19th century, the government of independent Mexico has actively promoted cultural fusion ( mestizaje ) and shared cultural traits in order to create a national identity.
Monument to the Mestizaje in Mexico City, showing Hernan Cortes, La Malinche and their son, Martín Cortes, one of the first mestizos in Mexico.. When the term mestizo and the caste system were introduced to Mexico is unknown, but the earliest surviving records categorizing people by "qualities" (as castes were known in early colonial Mexico) are late-18th-century church birth and marriage ...
In contrast to Mexico's majority mestizo culture, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec has a predominantly Zapotec population, one of the country's indigenous peoples. It is widely reported that muxe face less hostility there than homosexuals, effeminate males, and trans women do elsewhere in Mexico.
Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) pays tribute to the contributions and culture of Latinx and Hispanic people. To commemorate the occasion, here are 54 of the most influential ...
Cross-cultural studies, sometimes called holocultural studies or comparative studies, is a specialization in anthropology and sister sciences such as sociology, psychology, economics, political science that uses field data from many societies through comparative research to examine the scope of human behavior and test hypotheses about human behavior and culture.
The indigenous have been discriminated against because of their language, culture, stature, dress or indigenous features they have. “I think that racism among Mexican mixed bloods is so deep ...
Sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to explain social behavior in terms of evolution.It draws from disciplines including psychology, ethology, anthropology, evolution, zoology, archaeology, and population genetics.