How The Mexican Culture Shape My Culture

As I begin this essay comparing two separate cultures I feel it is necessary to first describe what exactly culture is. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society." It includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behavior such as law and morality, and systems of belief.

In our society today, culture is not what it used to be hundreds of years ago. There is no more “pure” culture. Our culture today is enriched with many different traditions and customs that are being shared and adopted. Due to emigration and immigration, a variety of diverse customs, beliefs, and knowledge moved with every exiting and entering human being. Thus, changing and shaping the culture of many. Throughout the world, the beliefs and religious views of culture are dissimilar around the world. By taking the time to read, listen and learn about certain people’s culture, there will be knowledge and understanding that will be gained.

Throughout the period of the 1st to 16th century, Mexico experienced the emergence and rise of powerful civilizations such as the Teotihuacan, Toltec and ultimately, the greatest empire, Aztec. Many cultural and economic practices of these Mexican civilizations were borrowed from the prior civilization, adapted, and then further developed upon and while many aspects of these practices stayed the same through this time, significant changes occurred as well.

According to Luthans and Duh culture is the acquired knowledge that people use to interpret experience and generate social behavior. This knowledge forms values, creates attitudes, and influences behavior (Luthans & Doh, 2015, p. 112). Culture is learned from experiences, and shared with one another. It is passed down from one generation to another. We here in West Michigan have our own culture that may have similarities to those in Mexico or China but some significant differences should be documented. One example is the difference in the value of time between the United States and Mexico. Mexicans put less value on time and therefore do not see typically have issues when a meeting is late to start.

This is a narrative of one Mexican American woman’s experiences and her views on the importance of passing down the cultural beliefs of her ancestors. In the section of the country in which I live there is a large population within the community of Mexican American culture. Although I have frequent contact with people of Mexican American heritage either through employment or interaction out in the community, I have a limited understanding of their culture. For this reason, I chose to learn more about the population of people I have frequent contact with and as a professional work with as clients in the field of mental health counseling. The quest of finding someone knowledgeable to discuss the population, their cultural background and some of their necessities, as well as some past experiences, led me towards contacting a church. This took calling two different churches before the person at the second church informed me that I needed to speak with, Mrs. Socorro Garcia head of their Hispanic Ministries. Unfortunately, Mrs. Garcia was on vacation when I called, but I was able to speak with her over the phone the following week, setting up an interview in person at her office a couple days later. This was a relief because I was becoming concerned about locating someone for a personal interview.

Throughout time, Mexican art and architectures have changed drastically. Art done in the colonial period was known as folk art. This included weaving textiles, pottery, and silver work. This has cultivated throughout Mexico’s history. Native peoples were introduced to European art, especially paintings, and building techniques.

During my various trips to gather information for the Culture Project, one stop I made was at the National Museum of Mexican Art. From what information I gathered, I found the place to be incredibly interesting. With information from biblical times, to the era of Cesar Chavez, and all the way to today. The folk and popular culture elements were greatly expressed in a lot of paintings, and photos. In some photos I saw grown people in more popular culture outfits like sports jerseys , while the children in more folk culture outfits. From this I believed that popular culture did have an influence, the adults were aware of it, and tried to teach it. In addition to this, many of the paintings seemed to have their own artistic style, detailing certain

When you think of inner city do bad good things comes to mind? Thoughts of gang violence, crime, and poverty come to mind. How did it become this way? What made it become as bad as it is now? Is there a way we can change a mentality of the city? For these answers we have to go to the base root of all these cultures, see their beginnings and their breaking points. Focusing on Chicago and East Los Angeles the Latino and African American culture. The story of a struggling people and the abandonment of their American dream

In my culture, most of the mexican people consider that family is the more important. Children always should listen to their parents and obey them. In our culture, adults believe that children should not be outside their homes at night because something bad can happen to them. They should not talk to strangers neither, because not everyone is a good person. The legend I choose talk about what can happen to someone if they do not avoid these two things mention before.

Mexican food is my favorite type of food. The flavors and spices used in Mexican Food are unique and taste very good. My family goes out to eat at various Mexican restaurants and I even go there if I need a quick bite to eat. I think that every possible Mexican dish tastes really good. I could eat Mexican every meal every day of the week. The history and culture of Mexican food is also really cool and interesting. Mexican culture was brought to the United States and in continued in the Mexican food which uses many unique flavors and spices to make it taste so good leading to many different Mexican restaurants around the United States.

When I think of Mexico, the first thing that comes to mind is drugs and violence, but also a home of sorts. My roots lie in Mexico and I love it, but the drugs and the violence has a firm grip on my perception of it. My views are not influenced by my own experiences, they are influenced by others’ experiences, mainly my father’s stories.

I was born and raise in Puerto Rico. My grandparents (parents of my mother) are dominican so I was raise in basically a mixture of three cultures; american, puerto rican and dominican. Growing up with different cultures gave me an understanding of how other cultures shape the person someone can become. Although I have different cultures in my life, I still have a “single story” perspective about other parts of the world.

My family has been a really big influence on my culture identity. They’ve made me who I am today and have been people I’ve always been able to talk to. They’ve taught me to be a good person, have good manners, open up, work hard, and to make friends. My family has always been there for me and I’m so thankful to be close to them. Some of the people that have had big effects on my cultural identity are my cousin, Eila, my grandparents, and my dad.

To help better understand Mexico’s culture, a brief overview of Geert Hofstede’s study of different cultures would be useful. Hofstede’s cultural taxonomy helps in the understanding of cultural differences. Hofstede proposed that people carry mental programs that are developed during their childhood and are reinforced by their culture (Lustig, Koester, 2006, p.114). Through these programs, the ideas of a culture are expressed through its principal values. Hofstede conducted a study of over 100,000 IBM employees in over seventy-one countries in order to identify these principal values in different cultures. After his initial study, he conducted additional research in additional countries not in the IBM sample. Through his study and

The marketer needs basic information to evaluate a country market’s potential, identify problems that would eliminate a country from further consideration, identify aspects of a country’s environment for possible adaptation, and develop a strategic market approach. One further use of the information collected in the preliminary analysis (cultural analysis) is as a basis for country notebook. A country notebook includes a Cultural Analysis, Economic Analysis, Market Audit and Competitive Market Analysis.