2. Unit 3: Latin America Topic: Mexico
Content Objective: Describe the difference between ethnic groups in Mexico and ethnic groups in the U.S.
TLWBAT recognize Mexico’s current issues by reading a series of articles

3. Profile

4. Capital: Mexico City – Distrito Federal Government: Federal Republic
Independence: 9/16/1810 (Spain)
31 states
Leader: Enrique Peña Nieto (PRI)
Population - 118,000,000 (2013)
GDP Per Capita: $9,000
Unemployment: 9.8%
Percentage living in poverty: 40%
Spain did not recognize until 1821

5. Culture

6. El Dia de los Muertos The Day of the Dead
Celebrate and pray for family
Trace back to Aztec Goddess

7. Festivals
Folk dancing
Mariachis
Piñatas

8. Religion 89% Catholic 6% Protestant Gothic Architecture
La Virgen de Guadalupe
The Virgin Mary

9. Syncretism Catholic and Aztec combine Santa Muerte
Growing last 20 years
Protects in afterlife

10. Brujeria
Witchcraft
Curandera
Potions
Spells

11. Food Varies by region In north Southern regions More of what we see
“cattle” country
Meat and cheese
Southern regions
More exotic

12. Quinceañera
15th b-day celebration

13. Sports Soccer (futbol) Boxing Charrería (rodeo) Lucha Libre
Bullfighting

14. Other Groups

15. Ethnicity
60% Mestizo
30% Amerindian
9% white

16. Mennonites Germans (in Russia) Farmers Population 100,000 Separate
Cheese
Population 100,000
90,000 Chihuahua
Separate
Successful
In the period leading up to and during World War I, governments in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan passed laws requiring public schools to fly the Union Jack, required compulsory attendance, and forcibly created public schools in areas of Mennonite settlement. In response the more conservative Mennonites sent out delegates to a number of countries to seek out a new land for settlement. They finally settled in a tract of land in Northern Mexico after negotiating certain privileges with Mexican President Álvaro Obregón. Approximately 6,000 of the most conservative Mennonites eventually left Manitoba and Saskatchewan for Mexico. The first train left Plum Coulee, Manitoba, on March 1, Many Mennonites immigrants settled in Northern Mexico from the U.S. states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, as well as from Canada.

17. Indigenous 62 indigenous groups Each has a unique language Population
12 million

18. telenovelas
Soap Operas

19. Education

20. Education Compulsory 9 years Basic (k-6) Secondary (7-9)
Higher education
University
technical institute
teacher-training college
technological universities
Literacy 93%

21. Global Overview

22. Issues Smog of Mexico City Factory workers $8 - $12 a day Drug Cartels
Corrupt politicians
Rise in kidnappings
Zapatistas