Posts related to the Mexican culture
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln Mother’s Day is one of the most important holidays in Mexico. I would say in my opinion, is the second most important celebration, being Christmas the biggest one. For Mexicans, the celebration of this day could be a…
“Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.”– Janine di Giovanni In Mexico, Easter is one of the most important weeks of the year for the whole country. First of all, the kids from all ages until 9th grade get to enjoy two weeks off school. Second of all, some…
The Mexican-American war was a conflict between the US and Mexico between 1846 and 1848. The Saint Patrick’s battalion was a unit of mostly Irish immigrants who left the United States Army to fight for Mexico during this war. John O’riley and The St. Patrick’s Battalion The Saint Patrick’s Battalion was integrated by 175 Catholic…
As Mexicans, we tend to give nicknames to everyone and to pretty much anything. It’s part of our culture and our way of having fun. But since I moved to the USA, I’ve noticed that some people can get offended if someone calls them gingo/gringa. My main intention with this post is that I want…
When I was a kid back in Mexico I was raised as a Catholic. I had to go to mass every Sunday and to Catholic school on Fridays. I was also taught that celebrating Halloween was bad. Also, in Mexico Halloween is considered a foreign tradition that it’s somehow rejected. This is just because some…
A Calaverita Poem (better known just as Calaveritas) is the Mexican tradition of writing a satirical poem about friends, family and pretty much anyone in a verse in order to make fun of them and the death. Additionally, this tradition is part of the Day of the Dead celebration and can be added as part…
“We are mortal because we are made out of time and history. But there are instant exits through the culture that are a poetic act, which dissolves time, to escape from history and death. – Octavio Paz.” The Mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead has recently become more popular after a couple of…
The day of the Dead is getting closer and probably you learned something about it last year thank you to Disney’s Pixar movie COCO. And if you haven’t seen the movie or you just want to learn more about it, you can read my post “Mexican folklore: The Day of the Dead“ Now, you want…
Now that Hollywood has decided to release a trailer for a movie based on the Legend of the Weeping woman better known in Hispanic culture as La Llorona, made me realize that not a lot of “foreign” people know about it and that probably Hollywood might ruin it for everyone. At least what I saw…
