Mestizos Research Paper

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The Majority of Mexicans can be classified as or called “Mestizos”. This is because they cannot relate to neither the indigenous or non-Mexican part of their culture. There are two other major groups that can be found in Mexico as well. One is the “Indigenous” groups with was pre-European influence. At one point in time, these “Indigenous” spoke over 62 different languages across all of Mexico. The other is the Mestizaje or “mixed. They were an outcome of the post-revolutionary period which combined Euro-American ideas generating multiracial settings all through Mexico.
Mexico’s geographical features include mountains, valleys, hurricanes, volcanos and deserts in the north region, and rain forest in its southern region. The geography in Mexico is also known as patrias chicas or “little countries” for the hundreds of little cities it encompasses. With Mexico’s such diverse climate change in various parts of the country, rain for them can be a blessing, allowing them to crow their most popular crop maize. But with too much rain, it can cause the water to run off before the soil can absorb or. Also …show more content…

Due to its lack of work within the country, a lot of Mexicans have crossed the border in search of work for the greater life. This is not totally a negative for Mexico, as most of these immigrants send most of their wages back to their family that they have left behind. This in turn makes their economy grow, but once these immigrants are caught and send back home, this brings that economic instability that Mexico is desperately struggling with. Another major issue for Mexico is that of its drug smuggling, violence, and corruption not only along the border. Which has caused its neighboring country the United States to enforce more regulations in which who they allow into the United States legally for work. This has also caused a major division along the border with the construction of a