Mexico Culture Vs American Culture

Planet Earth is inhabited by a wide variety of different types of people. Typically people define someone by their personality or by the way they carry themselves, however what you can’t see on the surface is the essence of what truly defines someone, that being their cultural background. Culture is the way people live life, it’s a combination of traditions, morals, and beliefs. Furthermore, nobody can really know an individual’s culture unless they get to know the person or research the culture itself. A person of the Name of Kim Ann Zimmermann says culture is defined as “characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisines, social habits, music, and arts.” Identically Mexico checks

(Tastessence 2018) Upon Spain invading Mexico they brought with them the idea of domesticating new live stocks such as sheep’s, pigs, and cows. They also brought with them dairy products, garlic, an assortment of many different herbs, wheat, and spices, all of these along with Corn tortillas and refried beans have been a huge part of Mexican cuisines both in the past and in the present. (Bowman 2018) One of Mexico’s most famous dishes is the Enchilada, even though Americans first experienced it in 1885 the dish goes back as far as the Aztecs using tortillas to wrap their food. Since the 20th century there has been an exchange of food influence between Mexico and the United States. (Pruitt 2015) Although Mexican food is still practiced in southern Texas there are considerable differences between Tex-Mex and true authentic Mexican cuisine. First and foremost most Mexican cuisines use a corn tortilla opposed to Tex-Mex using a flour tortilla, also Tex-Mex is associated with fast food Mexican cuisines. The main dishes in Mexican cuisine are very popular to include tacos and burritos but many people overlook or do not know about their unique variety of deserts. When the Aztecs ruled their empire most deserts were either boiled, broiled, steamed or eaten raw. (Mexicali Grill 2015) Nothing was fried in Mexico until the Spaniards brought with them pigs during the conquering of the Aztecs. Once the people began to use oils to fry certain foods, deserts such as crema frita a desert that is a thick custard that is sliced, rolled in flour, bread crumbs and eggs, deep fried, and served with honey would come to