Looking for the "Real" Mexico, Volume 1
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So we just got back from a short vacation trip to Mexico City (we live in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas). Here's the first of three short video blog pieces about looking for the real Mexico.
Video iPod friendly file.
posted by Jack at 4:35 PM
2 Comments:
Yeah, you are right, but that wasn't the point of the video. I hadn't been in DF in years and was struck by how many American businesses there were. I'm always interested in how Mexicans hate and love American things too.
It's just a short video joke; not meant to be taken too seriously.
The "Real" Mexico:
- pyramid cities
- writing (Mayan, Olmec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, etc)
- astronomy
- invention of the concept zero
- invention of positional notation for numbers
- mandatory education for all (Tenochtitlan)
- world's first team sport (ball game)
- genetic engineering of the maize plant into corn
- Tonantzin
- Nahuatl language
and on and on
The Fake Mexico:
- tequila
- donkeys (from Europe and Middle East)
- big hats ( to keep brown skin from getting any darker in a race-obsessed colonial culture)
- widespread drunkeness (symptom of a ruined people)
- Virgin de Guadalupe
- Spanish language
and on and on
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