Mexico's Social Class System

In the 16th and 17th centuries the world saw the formation of something never before seen: a large scale global economy. At the center of this economy was Spain, Spanish America, and silver. With increasing pressure on the Habsburg regime to compete with the Dutch trading empire, the Spanish found a novel source of income in the form of silver. Mined and refined in Spanish America and shipped to Europe and Asia, silver stimulated the growth of not only the Spanish empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, but also the growth of Spanish America (Tutino Lecture). Three distinct regions produced the vast sums of silver needed to sustain this global economy; the Bajío, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. The Bajío region is located in current day Central Mexico and extends to Northern Mexico.

To what extent was Mexico’s independence from Spain a “full-scale assault on dependency”? This essay will investigate how the Mexican independence from Spain was only slightly a “full-scale assault on dependency”, due to several political and social conflicts. Firstly, Mexico remained a monarchy (but not under the control of Spain) after the insurgency. Secondly, there was still an official state religion in Mexico. Another reason is because social conflicts reduced the desire for independence .On the other hand, it assaulted dependency because there were some changes within the social hierarchy, and because Mexico was free from Spain.

The Six-Part American Class System model groups individuals with approximately similar income, occupations and educations. The classes include in the model are upper, upper-middle, lower-middle, working, working poor, and underclass. However, middle class is in between the rich and the poor seeming like a balance between the two social classes. Middle class is split into two sections: upper-middle class and lower-middle class. The differences that separate them are decided between their occupations, incomes and education.

Mexico is considered as a collectivistic society. Loyalty in this culture is paramount which meaning that Mexican culture tendency have a long-term commitment to their group of people meaning extended family and extended relationships. Mexican cultures over-rides over most other societal rules and regulations. With the strong relationships among this culture everyone will take accountability for their fellow member of their group.

In the decades after 1519, the Spaniards created the distinctive colonial society of New Spain. Through this paper I will discuss the features of this new society, how it benefitted the Spanish, and its toll on the native populations using evidence and facts found in out textbook, The American Promise: A Concise History and an article from the Economist Newspaper titled, Americas:1519: The Conquest. It started in the sixteenth century when the New World helped Spain become the most powerful monarchy in both Europe and the Americas. Then there was the conquest of Mexico that ended greatly for the powerful Spain but not so much the native people of Mexico. This

When it came to the economics, the Spanish did not respond so peacefully; they were acted harshly. Spanish conquistadors originally established their rule in colonial America in search of gold and silver. Throughout their rule, they have not forgotten their main goal. For example, the Spanish deprived the Natives of their resources, and forced them into slavery. The Native Americans were ordered to work in gold and silver mines. Another example of the Spanish behaving brutally towards the Natives was when Cortez conquered the Aztecs. After he had besieged their capital city, Cortez had already robbed the Aztec’s resources. The Spanish did not play nicely when it came down to wealth and resources.

Mexico and Peru’s economic foundation was based of Commercial agriculture during colonial rule, as well as silver and Gold mining. This greatly shaped the kinds of societies that came to arise due to a very distinct social order in society. The social order accommodated the Indians, Africans, and any person that was racially mixed. This social order was quite similar to that of

The axis of inequality that will be focused throughout this paper is the social class. Social class is defined as a group of individuals who are categorized according to class (i.e. poor, middle, and upper) due to their income, wealth, power, and occupation. Social class is socially constructed by the way we view how much income and wealth a person possess (Ore, 20011a, 10). In reality it is much more than that. According to the text, poverty is not only the shortage of income, but it is the rejection of opportunities and choices that leads a person to a standard way of living (Ore, 2011a, 10). Stereotyping also contributes to it being socially constructed. These stereotypes influence us by defining who is who based on their principles in each class category. This can cause some to feel worthless.

This chapter talks about the deculturalization of Hispanic Americans in education and etc. Anglo-Americans didn’t consider Hispanic/Latino Americans white, more as an inferior race. The Mexican War mark a change in Mexicans. The Mexicans lost half of its territory to the United States/Already losted half of their territory in the war; the ratification of a new treaty came about, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty stated, that Mexicans remaining in their lost territories have the right to become U.S citizens (page 90). The Mexican congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in 1848; ceded the United States Mexican territory from Texas to California. Mexican leaders wanted all Mexicans living in ceded territory to be given citizenship

In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution by Hector Aquilar Camin and Lorenzo Meyer tells a chronological story of contemporary Mexico from the fall of Porfirio Diaz in 1910 to the July elections in 1989. The time period that Camin and Meyer portray in Mexico is one of corruption, civil war, and failure. While Mexico would undergo an era described as the “Mexican Miracle” where the Mexican country would begin to see a positive output in the country, it would be short-lived and Mexico would continue to fall behind as other countries progressed. While In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution is comprised of facts throughout history, one cannot help but feel a sense of sympathy for Mexico. While their corruption, political, and economical,

A priest named Father Hidalgo revolted against Spain. Hidalgo fought against the injustices of the colonial system. He asked others, “Will you recover the lands stolen three hundred years ago from your forefathers by the hated Spaniards? … Will you defend your religion and your rights as true patriots?” (doc E). Hidalgo questioned others and encouraged them to fight with them to get their rights back that they had originally lost. According to Juan Pablo Viscardo, a Creole, Spain created “restrictions on travel and commerce” (doc C) which kept America from the rest of the world. Viscardo also explains that it forced America to “sell our (America’s) products at artificially low prices and buy what we need at artificially high prices” (doc C). If America is buying at high prices and selling at low prices, how do they make the money they need to grow as a country and prosper? The Creoles wanted more economic control because it had been growing and the Creoles wanted their rights

This report examines cultural and institutional factors of Mexico and how they can impact global HR management and practices. Specifically, by analyzing Mexican culture based on Hofstede’s dimensions, economy, labor legislation, union and employment tradition we reached the conclusion that the features of Mexican culture (high power distance, strong collectivism, high level of masculinity and uncertainty avoidance) and institutional factors have a strong impact on management styles and HR practices of business in Mexico and may arouse some challenges for global company and their expatriates, especially those from countries that bear different cultural features and institutional conditions. In order to minimize the potential conflict between Mexican local employees and expatriates, parent companies need to provide trainings (culture assimilation, country condition, etc.) before sending anybody to Mexico. Also, whether the expatriates should put more effort to disseminate home country (headquarter) culture or to adjust to local culture depends on the company’s strategy in terms of being localized or standardized around the globe.

Since Mexican Americans were considered to be second class citizens (they were overlooked, and not thought to be smart) the high social order felt that they would loose their social status because Mexican Americans did not fit into “iron clad” racial categories that already existed. The Mexican Americans would be deemed being equal to whites and could also judge whites.

We can see this first struggle of the nation and local interest when Mexican people want more freedom from Spanish and to rule them self. At this period of 1700’s as monarch of Spain wanted to shift the power of the money that the Catholic church had during the Bourbons reform. The Mexico

Although Latin America has faced many social, political, and economic issues within the last three centuries, inequality remains one of the most important, historical, and omnipresent aspects of the region’s culture. As Europeans took over Latin America during the time of colonization, they implemented many elitist social structures that have held strong and are evident today (Harris). Income inequality is the most visible and greatest disparity that the region faces; yet inequality between gender, ethnicities, and education remain strong and significant problems with a necessity for improvement. Inequality of wealth and disparity of power and influence are Latin American’s greatest curses and are at the root of many of the