1. UNDERSTANDING MEXICO’S DIVERSITY OF CULTURES
DISTRICT 4110
A VAST AND RICH CULTURE
A great opportunity for Youth Exchange
By: Raul A. Herrera H, D-4110 Mexico
Youth Exchange Program Country Correspondant
Club Rotario de Chihuahua, A.C.

2. The purpose of this presentation is to briefly explain the different cultures Mexico has inside its territory and how we all get along just fine.
Due to the big gap between each ethnia that live inside Mexico, the difference in ways of living, thinking, acting, etc, it makes Mexico a very rich country in culture learning.
The exchange student has the chance to learn the reason why there are differences in Mexico with respect to any other first world country.
Give yourself a chance to learn about Mexico's “Mi Casa es su casa” (My house is your house).
As our friend Dennis White said: Cultures are behavior…s, take a look at this presentation. Here is why.
Raul (Chito) Herrera
With all my love to all youth exchange that has had the courage to learn and is now bicultural.
To Luis Mario, my Chairman whom gave me the opportunity to participate in this great endeavor.
For all of you (Extrangers) Mal, Rosanna, Anna, Chantel, Anne, Iris, Rikka, Julianna, Chrille, Diego, Mochelini.

3. THE SPANISH CONQUEST (1519-1521)
The year which marked the opening of a short but decisive chapter in Mexico's history. On February, a fleet of 11 Spanish galleons sailing along the eastern gulf coast dropped anchor just off the wind-swept beach on the island of San Juan de Ulúa.
550 Spanish soldiers and sailors landed upon the shores of Meso-America in February of the year 1519, in the area of Vera Cruz.
By November of that year, the Spanish fleet, commanded by Hernan Cortez, entered into Tenochtitlan and simply arrested the Emperor of the Aztec, Montezuma. Within the time span of two years, Cortez dismantled the Aztec monarchy and gained control of all of Tenochtitlan, and many of it's surrounding territories.

4. UNDERSTANDING MEXICOS DIVERSITY OF CULTURES
Before the Spanish conquered Mexico, there were more than 170 known spoken languages in the vast territory of Mexico, mostly spoken by Indian tribes located in small communities along the territory.

5. Culture:
Its an integrated system of behaviors that are characteristic to one determined society. Dennis White in One World Too Many
It refers to the total ways of life, ways of thinking and ways of act of one society

7. 62 LANGUAGES Spoken in México
LANGUAGE POPULATION
16. Mepha ,000
Tarahumara ,000
Zogue ,000
Mayo o Yoreme ,000
Tojolabal ,000
Chontal ,000
Popoluca ,000
Chatino ,000
Amuzgo ,000
Huichol ,000
Tepehuan ,000
Triqui ,000
Popoloca ,000
Cora o Naayeri ,000
Kanjobal ,000
LANGUAGE POPULATION
Spanish 90,000,000
Nahuatl 2,563,000
Maya 1,490,000
Zapoteco o diidzaj ,000
Mixteco o Ñuu Savi ,000
Otomi o Ñahñú ,000
Tzeltal o K`op ,000
Tzotzil o Batzil ,000
Totonaca o Tachihuiin ,000
Mazateco ,000
Chol ,000
Mazahua ,000
Huasteco ,000
Purepeche o Tarasco ,000
Mixe o Ayook ,000

8. LANGUAGES THAT ARE STILL ALIVE AROUND THE WORLD
INDIA 65 LANGUAGES
MEXICO 62 LANGUAGES
CHINA 54 LANGUAGES
Languages are not just sets of symbols. They also contain a grammar, or system of rules, used to manipulate the symbols. While a set of symbols may be used for expression or communication, it is primitive and relatively unexpressive, because there are no clear or regular relationships between the symbols. Because a language also has a grammar, it can manipulate its symbols to express clear and regular relationships between them.

9. WHERE THEY LIVE

10. MAYAS
The Mayas live in the Península of Yucatan located in the Mexican states of Quintana Roo, Campeche y Yucatán.

11. Exchange Students in the Mayan Chichen Itza Pyramid in the Yucatan Penninsula

12. From left to right: Anna, Christian, Rosanna, Anna, Chantel, Julianna, Sirkku and Ligia, exchange students

15. ZAPOTECAS
The Zapotecas lived in Central Itzmo of Tehuantepec including the states of Oaxaca, Veracruz and Chiapas.

16. Palenque the Zapotecas region in Chiapas

18. TARAHUMARAS / RARAMURI
Tarahumara or Raramuri Indians live in the Sierra Madre Occidental which include the states of Chihuahua and south east of Durango and Sonora

19. EXCHANGE STUDENTS GIVING CLOTHES TO THE TARAHUMARAS

20. EXCHANGE STUDENTS INTERACTING WITH TARAHUMARA INDIAN CHILDREN DURING INBOUND ORIENTATION CAMP

21. Exchange students Rosanna, from Germany and Anna, from Switzerland with a Tarahumara Indian woman in a typical Indian cave.

22. Exchange students group in a Cave where the Tarahumara Indian live. Exchange students have the chance to see the way they live.

23. Exchange students bringing food to the Tarahumara during their Inbound Orientation three day camp in the city of Creel, heart of the Tarahumara Indian land.

25. TARAHUMARA INDIAN LAND IN THE SIERRA MADRE

26. OTOMI HÑA HÑU
Otomies which lived north of Thenochtitlan in the states of Queretaro, Hidalgo and Michoacan

27. TEPEHUANES / O'DAM DEL SUR
The Tepehuanes / O'dams live in the extreme south of the state of Durango, and north part of the states of Nayarit and Zacatecas.

28. MEXICO`S DIVERSITY OF CULTURES Tarahumara Indian House

29. ACUEDUCT

30. FAST FOODS RESTAURANTS

34. HOSPITAL BUILDING

35. From México to the World A Contrast of many cultures
Raúl Herrera H,