An overall look at the Mexican Culture

Cultures have existed for a long period of time and have been passed down from generation to generation. Every culture is unique in their own way. Cultures don’t only differ in music, religion, foods, morals, values but also in beliefs and language. The United States of America is now full of a diversity of cultures and the Mexican culture is one of them. There is approximately 33.7 million Mexicans (2013) in the United States. We, Mexicans have brought our traditions, language, music, beliefs, foods and religion to the United States. As you can see, the Mexican culture is very present now in the United States.

Even though, there are many Mexicans here in the United States every family has its own ways of interpreting and doing things. Most of the Mexican culture is orientated by family and religion, which means that religion and family are a very important factor in our lives. Most of us are very united families and we tend to be optimistic towards anything; we always try our best to be positive. We are very hardworking people (most of our siblings work in the fields), we love dancing, cooking, eating, but over all participating in our religious holidays. As any other country we have many religious holidays and that is when most of the community comes together to form part of the amazing events. Although we celebrate many religious holidays, we also celebrate holidays like: Independence Day, as well as Christmas and New Year’s with many of our traditional foods and dances. These are some of the traditions in which the Mexican culture is based.


Helpful links:http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/05/01/a-demographic-portrait-of-mexican-origin-hispanics-in-the-united-states/