Mexico is a
country full of contradictions and mixtures between cultures. It’s a country in
development but it seems that way since colonial times; it has never taken a
higher step, its always been close to, but the dream slips away. The Spanish
came and cohabited among natives. In certain ways their culture permeated and
created a mix with the natives (other European colonies were just exploited and
the colonists didn't not came to really settle).
The mix
that happened in the territory since the Colonial time is what Mexico is now, a
mix of tradition, languages, ideas, religions and pure syncretism. Sarcastic,
funny, rebellious, a culture that in many ways is full of solitude around friends-
this is what Mexican folk/traditional art represents.
Mexican
folk is a kaleidoscopic view of our life dramas, accomplishments, failures,
paradigms and existence.
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