Mexicans

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Mexicans
Mexicanos
Mestizos
  • Afro-Mexicans
  • Mexican Americans
  • Indigenous peoples of Mexico
  • other Latin Americans

    • Mexicans (Spanish: Mexicanos) are the citizens and nationals of the United Mexican States.

    The most spoken language by Mexicans is Spanish, but many also speak languages from 68 different Indigenous linguistic groups and other languages brought to Mexico by recent immigration or learned by Mexican expatriates residing in other countries. In 2015, 21.5% of Mexico's population self-identified as being Indigenous.[47][48][49] There are about 12 million Mexican nationals residing outside Mexico, with about 11.7 million[50] living in the United States. The larger Mexican diaspora can also include individuals that trace ancestry to Mexico and self-identify as Mexican yet are not necessarily Mexican by citizenship. The United States has the largest Mexican population in the world after Mexico at 37,186,361 (2019).[51]

    The modern nation of Mexico achieved independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, after a decade-long war for independence starting in 1810; this began the process of forging a national identity that fused the cultural traits of Indigenous pre-Columbian origin with those of Spanish ancestry. This led to what has been termed "a peculiar form of multi-ethnic nationalism".[52]

    History

    See also: History of Mexico
    Mural by Diego Rivera at the National Palace depicting the history of Mexico from the Conquest to early 20th century

    The Mexican people have varied origins and an identity that has evolved with the succession of conquests among Amerindian groups and later by Europeans. The area that is now modern-day Mexico has cradled many predecessor civilizations, going back as far as the

    Aztecs (13 March 1325 to 13 August 1521). The Nahuatl language was a common tongue in the region of modern Central Mexico during the Aztec Empire, but after the arrival of Europeans the common language of the region became Spanish.[53]

    After the conquest of the Aztec empire, the Spanish re-administered the land and expanded their own empire beyond the former boundaries of the Aztec, adding more territory to the Mexican sphere of influence which remained under the Spanish Crown for 300 years. The Spaniards enslaved millions of Africans in South America. Slavery in Mexico did not end until 1829. Cultural diffusion and intermixing among the Amerindian populations with African and the Europeans created the modern Mexican identity which is a mixture of regional indigenous, European, and African cultures that evolved into a national culture during the Spanish period. This new identity was defined as "Mexican" shortly after the Mexican War of Independence and was more invigorated and developed after the Mexican Revolution when the Constitution of 1917 officially established Mexico as an indivisible pluricultural nation founded on its indigenous roots.[54][55]

    Definitions

    Mexicano (Mexican) is derived from the word Mexico itself.[56] In the principal model to create demonyms in Spanish, the suffix -ano is added to the name of the place of origin. However, in Nahuatl language, the original demonym becomes Mexica.

    It has been suggested that the name of the country is derived from

    Huitzilopochtli, in which case Mēxihco means "Place where Huitzilopochtli lives".[57] Another hypothesis[58] suggests that Mēxihco derives from the Nahuatl words for "Moon" (Mētztli) and navel (xīctli). This meaning ("Place at the Center of the Moon") might then refer to Tenochtitlan's position in the middle of Lake Texcoco. The system of interconnected lakes, of which Texcoco formed the center, had the form of a rabbit, which the Mesoamericans pareidolically associated with the Moon. Still another hypothesis suggests that it is derived from Mēctli, the goddess of maguey.[58]

    Ethnic groups

    See also: Ethnography of Mexico

    Mestizo Mexicans

    Main article: Mestizos in Mexico
    President Porfirio Díaz was of partial Mestizo descent.

    The majority of Mexicans have varying degrees of

    Spanish and Mesoamerican ancestry and have been classified as "Mestizos". In the modern meaning of the term this means that they identify fully neither with any indigenous culture nor with a Spanish cultural heritage, but rather identify with the uniquely Mexican identity which incorporates elements from both Spanish and indigenous traditions. By the deliberate efforts of post-revolutionary governments the "Mestizo identity" was constructed as the base of the modern Mexican national identity, through a process of cultural synthesis referred to as mestizaje [mestiˈsaxe]. Mexican politicians and reformers such as José Vasconcelos and Manuel Gamio were instrumental in building a Mexican national identity on the concept of mestizaje.[59][60]

    Since the Mestizo identity promoted by the government is more of a cultural self-identity, it has achieved a strong influence in the country, with many people who may be considered "White" identifying with it. This has caused many people who may not qualify as "Mestizos" in its original sense to be counted as such in Mexico's demographic investigations and censuses.[61]

    A similar situation occurs regarding the distinctions between Indigenous peoples and Mestizos: while the term Mestizo is sometimes used in English with the meaning of a person with mixed indigenous and European blood, this usage does not conform to the Mexican social reality where a person of pure Indigenous genetic heritage would be considered Mestizo either by rejecting his indigenous culture or by not speaking an indigenous language,[62] and a person with none or a very low percentage of indigenous genetic heritage would be considered fully indigenous either by speaking an indigenous language or by identifying with a particular indigenous cultural heritage.[63][64][65]

    In the Yucatán peninsula the word Mestizo has a different meaning, with it being to refer to the Maya-speaking populations living in traditional communities, because during the caste war of the late 19th century those Maya who did not join the rebellion were classified as Mestizos.[62] In Chiapas the word "Ladino" is used instead of "mestizo".[66]

    Alejandro Fernandez
    in concert

    Cultural policies in early post-revolutionary Mexico were paternalistic towards the indigenous people, with efforts designed to "help" indigenous peoples achieve the same level of progress as the rest of society, eventually assimilating indigenous peoples completely to Mestizo Mexican culture, working toward the goal of eventually solving the "Amerindian problem" by transforming indigenous communities into Mestizo communities.[67]

    Given that the word Mestizo has different implications in certain areas in Mexico, estimates of the Mexican Mestizo population vary widely. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, which uses a biology-based approach, between one half and two thirds of the Mexican population is Mestizo.[68] A culture-based estimate gives the percentage of Mestizos as high as 90%.[69] Paradoxically, the word "Mestizo" has long been dropped from popular Mexican vocabulary, with the word even having pejorative connotations further complicating attempts to quantify Mestizos via self-identification.[62] Recent research based on self-identification indeed, observing that many Mexicans do not actually identify as mestizos and would not agree to be labeled as such,[70] with "static" racial labels such as White, Indian, Black etc. being more commonly used.[71]

    While for most of its history the concept of Mestizo and mestizaje has been lauded by Mexico's intellectual circles, in recent times the concept has been target of criticism, with its detractors claiming that it delegitimizes the importance of race in Mexico under the idea of racism "not existing here [in Mexico], as everybody is Mestizo".[72] In general, the authors conclude that Mexico introducing a real racial classification and accepting itself as a multicultural country opposed to a monolithic Mestizo country would bring benefits to the Mexican society as a whole.[73]

    White Mexicans

    Main article: White Mexicans
    Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla leader of the Mexican War of Independence.

    White Mexicans are

    colonial times, the majority of Spanish men married with Spanish women. Said registers also put in question other narratives held by contemporary academics, such as European immigrants who arrived to Mexico being almost exclusively men or that "pure Spanish" people were all part of a small powerful elite, as Spaniards were often the most numerous ethnic group in the colonial cities[82][83] and there were menial workers and people in poverty who were of complete Spanish origin.[84]

    Mexican singer Paulina Rubio is of Spanish descent.[85]
    Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2015

    Estimates of Mexico's white population differ greatly in both methodology and percentages given. Extra-official sources such as the CIA World Factbook and Encyclopædia Britannica, which use the 1921 census results as the base of their estimations calculate Mexico's white population as 9%

    blond hair as reference to classify a Mexican as white, the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico calculated the percentage of said ethnic group at 23%.[89] With a similar methodology, the American Sociological Association obtained a percentage of 18.8% having its higher frequency on the North region (22.3%–23.9%) followed by the Center region (18.4%–21.3%) and the South region (11.9%).[90] Another study made by the University College London in collaboration with Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History found that the frequencies of blond hair and light eyes in Mexicans are 18% and 28% respectively;[91] surveys that use as reference skin color such as those made by Mexico's National Council to Prevent Discrimination and Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography reported percentages of 47% in 2010[92][93][94] and 49% in 2017[80][95] respectively. Another survey published in 2018 reported a percentage significantly lower at 29%;[96] this time, however, the surveying of Mexicans from "vulnerable groups" was prioritized, which among other measures meant that states known to have high numbers of people from said groups surveyed more people.[97] The use of skin color palettes as the primary criteria to estimate the ethnoracial groups that inhabit a given country has its origin in the investigations produced by Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities, which found it to be more accurate than self-identification particularly in Latin America, where the different discourses that exist in regards to national identity have rendered previous attempts to estimate ethnic groups unreliable.[98]

    Mexico's northern and western regions have the highest percentages of

    Spanish colonial period. However, recent immigrants from southern Mexico have been changing, to some degree, its demographic trends.[100]

    Indigenous Mexicans

    Main article: Indigenous peoples of Mexico
    Benito Juárez was the first President of Indigenous descent in Mexico

    The 2003

    Kikapú[102] in the 19th century and those who immigrated from Guatemala in the 1980s.[103]

    Yalitza Aparicio

    The category of indigena (indigenous) in Mexico has been defined based on different criteria through history; this means that the percentage of the Mexican population defined as "indigenous" varies according to the definition applied. It can be defined narrowly according to linguistic criteria including only persons that speak an indigenous language. Based on this criterion, approximately 5.4% of the population is Indigenous.[104] Nonetheless, activists for the rights of indigenous peoples have referred to the usage of this criterion for census purposes as "statistical genocide".[105][106]

    Other surveys made by the Mexican government do count as Indigenous all persons who speak an indigenous language and people who do not speak indigenous languages nor live in indigenous communities but self-identifies as Indigenous. According to this criterion, the

    INEGI (Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography), stated that there are 15.7 million indigenous people in Mexico of many different ethnic groups,[107] which constitute 14.9% of the population in the country.[a]

    Tenoch Huerta, Mexican actor

    According to the latest intercensal survey carried out by the Mexican government in 2015, Indigenous people make up 21.5% of Mexico's population. In this occasion, people who self-identified as "Indigenous" and people who self-identified as "partially Indigenous" were classified in the "Indigenous" category altogether.[47] However, in the 2020 Mexican census, Indigenous peoples made up 9.36% of the population, being defined as Mexicans who live in Indigenous households.[110]

    The absolute indigenous population is growing, but at a slower rate than the rest of the population so that the percentage of indigenous peoples is nonetheless falling.[104][111][112] The majority of the indigenous population is concentrated in the central-southern and south-eastern states, with the majority of the indigenous population living in rural areas. Some indigenous communities have a degree of autonomy under the legislation of "usos y costumbres" (usages and customs), which allows them to regulate some internal issues under customary law.

    According to the CDI, the

    Nahua people and the states of San Luis Potosí and Veracruz both home to a population of 19% indigenous people, mostly from the Totonac, Nahua and Teenek (Huastec) groups.[114]

    Afro-Mexicans

    Main article: Afro-Mexicans
    Kenyan
    -Mexican actress,

    Afro-Mexicans were brought to Mexico during the slave trade. Afro-Mexicans are an ethnic group that predominate in certain areas of Mexico. Such as the

    Costa Chica of Oaxaca and the Costa Chica of Guerrero, Veracruz (e.g. Yanga) and in some towns in northern Mexico, mainly in Múzquiz Municipality
    , Coahuila. The existence of blacks in Mexico is difficult to assess for a number of reasons: their small numbers, heavy intermarriage with other ethnic groups, and Mexico's tradition of defining itself as a Mestizo or mixing of European and indigenous. Mexico did have an active slave trade since the early Spanish period but from the beginning, intermarriage and mixed-race offspring created an elaborate caste system.

    The majority of Mexico's Afro-descendants are Afromestizos, i.e. "mixed-race". The majority being recent black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere in the Americas. According to the 2020 census survey carried out by the Mexican government, Afro-Mexicans make up 2.04% of Mexico's population, the Afro-Mexican category in the Intercensal survey includes people who self-identified solely as African and people who self-identified as partially African. The survey also states that 64.9% (896,829) of Afro-Mexicans also identified as indigenous, with 9.3% being speakers of indigenous languages.[47]

    Other ethno-cultural communities

    Jewish Mexicans

    See also: History of the Jews in Mexico
    Mexican director Gary Alazraki

    A Jewish, specifically

    crypto-Jews who have converted (back) to Judaism.[116] Sixty-two percent of the population over fifteen is married, three percent divorced and four percent widowed. However, younger Jewish women are more likely to be employed outside the home (only 18% of women are housewives) and fertility rates are dropping from 3.5 children of women over 65 to 2.7 for the overall population now. There is a low level of intermarriage with the general Mexican population, with only 3.1% of marriages being mixed.[115] Although the Jewish community is less than one percent of Mexico's total population, Mexico is one of the few countries whose Jewish population is expected to grow.[117][118]

    German Mexicans

    Main article: German Mexicans

    German Mexicans (German: Deutschmexikaner[119] or Deutsch-Mexikanisch, Spanish: germano-mexicano or alemán-mexicano) are Mexicans of German descent or origin.

    Most ethnic Germans arrived in Mexico during the mid-to-late 19th century, spurred by government policies of

    Mexican Mennonites, descendants of German and Dutch immigrants in the states of Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes. Other German towns lie in the states of Nuevo León, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Yucatán, Chiapas, Quintana Roo
    , and other parts of Puebla, where the German culture and language have been preserved to different extents.

    The German Mexican community has largely integrated into Mexican society as a whole whilst retaining some cultural traits and in turn exerted cultural and industrial influences on Mexican society. Especially after the First World War intense processes of transculturation can be observed, particularly in Mexico City,

    Maya in Chiapas. These include social, cultural and identity aspects.[120]

    Arab Mexicans

    Main article: Arab Mexicans
    Lebanese descent
    .
    José María Yazpik is a Mexican actor of Lebanese origin.

    An Arab Mexican is a Mexican citizen of Arab origin who can be of various ancestral origins. The vast majority of 450,000 Mexicans who have at least partial Arab descent trace their ancestry to what is now Lebanon and Syria.[121]

    Arab immigration to Mexico started in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

    Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Durango, as well as the city of Tampico and Guadalajara
    .

    During the Israel–Lebanon war in 1948 and during the Six-Day War, thousands of Lebanese left Lebanon and went to Mexico. They first arrived in Veracruz. Although Arabs made up less than 5% of the total immigrant population in Mexico during the 1930s, they constituted half of the immigrant economic activity.[121]

    Immigration of Arabs in Mexico has influenced Mexican culture, in particular food, where they have introduced

    Yucatecan cuisine.[123]

    The majority of Arab-Mexicans are Christians who belong to the

    Eastern Rite Catholic Churches.[124] A scant number are Muslims as well as indigenous Muslims which are most common in southern states like Chiapas or Oaxaca. And Jews
    of Middle Eastern origins.

    Romani Mexicans

    Main article: Romani Mexicans

    The first wave of Roma arrived in Mexico in the 1890s, when they came to the Americas from Hungary, Poland and Russia and mainly settled in the United States and Brazil, but also in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. There are Romani communities in the cities of Mexico City, Veracruz, Puebla, Guadalajara and Monterrey. There is also a large Romani community in San Luís Potosí.[125]

    Asian Mexicans

    Main article: Asian Mexicans
    Japanese Mexican youths in Monterrey

    Asian Mexicans make up less than 1% of the total population of modern Mexico. The term "Asian" in Mexico is typically associated with the Far East rather than the Near East. As such, this group may refer to Mexicans of East and Southeast Asian descent, as well as those of South Asian origin. Mexicans of West Asian descent may sometimes be considered to be part of the group.

    Mexican scientist and winner of the 2014 World Food Prize
    .

    Asian immigration began with the forced arrival of people from the jurisdictions of the

    China Poblana
    .

    Later groups of Asians, predominantly Chinese, became Mexico's fastest-growing immigrant group from the 1880s to the 1920s, exploding from about 1,500 in 1895 to more than 20,000 in 1910,[130] but also met with strong anti-Chinese sentiment, especially in Sonora and Sinaloa, which led to deportations and illegal expulsions of many of them and their descendants.

    Today

    Luis Miguel, always referred to as The Sun of Mexico.

    Ethnic relations in modern Mexico have grown out of the historical context of the

    castas system, the revolutionary periods focus on incorporating all ethnic and racial group into a common Mexican national identity and the indigenous revival of the late 20th century. The resulting picture has been called "a peculiar form of multi-ethnic nationalism".[52]

    Very generally speaking ethnic relations can be arranged on an axis between the two extremes of European and Amerindian cultural heritage, this is a remnant of the Spanish caste system which categorized individuals according to their perceived level of biological mixture between the two groups. Additionally the presence of considerable portions of the population with African heritage further complicates the situation.[131] Even though it still arranges persons along the line between indigenous and European, in practice the classificatory system is no longer biologically based, but rather mixes socio-cultural traits with phenotypical traits, and classification is largely fluid, allowing individuals to move between categories and define their ethnic and racial identities situationally.[62][132]

    Official censuses

    Historically, population studies and censuses have never been up to the standards that a population as diverse and numerous such as Mexico's require. The first racial census was made in 1793, being also Mexico's (then known as

    Mexico's National Institute of Statistics that was not the case).[133]
    While the 1921 census was the last time the Mexican government conducted a census that included a comprehensive racial classification, in recent time it has conducted nationwide surveys to quantify most of the ethnic groups who inhabit the country as well as the social dynamics and inequalities between them.

    1793 census

    Adams-Onís Treaty

    Also known as the "Revillagigedo census" due to its creation being ordered by the Count of the same name, this census was Mexico's (then known as the

    Viceroyalty of New Spain) first ever nationwide population census. Most of its original datasets have reportedly been lost, thus most of what is now known about it comes from essays and field investigations made by academics who had access to the census data and used it as reference for their works such as Prussian geographer Alexander von Humboldt. Each author gives different estimations for each racial group in the country although they do not vary much, with Europeans ranging from 18% to 22% of New Spain's population, Mestizos ranging from 21% to 25%, Amerindians ranging from 51% to 61% and Africans being between 6,000 and 10,000, The estimations given for the total population range from 3,799,561 to 6,122,354. It is concluded then, that across nearly three centuries of colonization, the population growth trends of Europeans and Mestizos were even, while the total percentage of the Indigenous population decreased at a rate of 13%–17% per century. The authors assert that rather than Europeans and mestizos having higher birthrates, the reason for the Indigenous population's numbers decreasing lies on them suffering of higher mortality rates, due living in remote locations rather than on cities and towns founded by the Spanish colonists or being at war with them. It is also for these reasons that the number of Indigenous Mexicans presents the greater variation range between publications, as in cases their numbers in a given location were estimated rather than counted, leading to possible overestimations in some provinces and possible underestimations in others.[134]

    Intendecy/territory European population (%) Indigenous population (%) Mestizo population (%)
    México (only the State of Mexico and Mexico City
    )     		16.9% 66.1% 16.7%
    Puebla 10.1% 74.3% 15.3%
    Oaxaca 06.3% 88.2% 05.2%
    Guanajuato 25.8% 44.0% 29.9%
    San Luis Potosí 13.0% 51.2% 35.7%
    Zacatecas 15.8% 29.0% 55.1%
    Durango 20.2% 36.0% 43.5%
    Sonora 28.5% 44.9% 26.4%
    Yucatán 14.8% 72.6% 12.3%
    Guadalajara 31.7% 33.3% 34.7%
    Veracruz 10.4% 74.0% 15.2%
    Valladolid
    		 27.6% 42.5% 29.6%
    Nuevo México ~ 30.8% 69.0%
    Vieja California ~ 51.7% 47.9%
    Nueva California ~ 89.9% 09.8%
    Coahuila 30.9% 28.9% 40.0%
    Nuevo León 62.6% 05.5% 31.6%
    Nuevo Santander 25.8% 23.3% 50.8%
    Texas 39.7% 27.3% 32.4%
    Tlaxcala 13.6% 72.4% 13.8%

    ~Europeans are included within the Mestizo category.

    Regardless of the possible imprecisions related to the counting of Indigenous peoples living outside the colonized areas, the effort that New Spain's authorities put on considering them as subjects is worth mentioning, as censuses made by other colonial or post-colonial countries did not consider Amerindians to be citizens/subjects, as example the censuses made by the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata would only count the inhabitants of the colonized settlements.[135] Other example would be the censuses made by the United States, that did not include Indigenous peoples living among the general population until 1860, and indigenous peoples as a whole until 1900.[136]

    1921 census

    The new constitution was approved on 5 February 1917. This picture shows the Constituent Congress of 1917 swearing fealty to the new Constitution.

    Made right after the consummation of the Mexican revolution, the social context on which this census was made makes it particularly unique, as the government of the time was in the process of rebuilding the country and was looking forward to unite all Mexicans under a single national identity. The 1921 census' final results in regards to race, which assert that 59.3% of the Mexican population self-identified as Mestizo, 29.1% as Indigenous and only 9.8% as White were then essential to cement the "mestizaje" ideology (that asserts that the Mexican population as a whole is product of the admixture of all races) which shaped Mexican identity and culture through the 20th century and remain prominent nowadays, with extraofficial international publications such as The World Factbook and Encyclopædia Britannica using them as a reference to estimate Mexico's racial composition up to this day.[137]

    Nonetheless in recent times the census' results have been subjected to scrutiny by historians, academics and social activists alike, who assert that such drastic alterations on demographic trends with respect to the 1793 census are not possible and cite, among other statistics, the relatively low frequency of marriages between people of different continental ancestries in colonial and early independent Mexico.

    Mexican Government conducted a comprehensive racial census with the breakdown by states being the following (foreigners and people who answered "other" not included):[140]

    Federative units Mestizo (%) Amerindian (%) White (%)
    Aguascalientes 66.12% 16.70% 16.77%
    Baja California
    (Distrito Norte)
    		 72.50% 07.72% 00.35%
    Baja California
    (Distrito Sur)         		59.61% 06.06% 33.40%
    Campeche 41.45% 43.41% 14.17%
    Coahuila 77.88% 11.38% 10.13%
    Colima 68.54% 26.00% 04.50%
    Chiapas 36.27% 47.64% 11.82%
    Chihuahua 50.09% 12.76% 36.33%
    Durango 89.85% 09.99% 00.01%
    Guanajuato 96.33% 02.96% 00.54%
    Guerrero 54.05% 43.84% 02.07%
    Hidalgo 51.47% 39.49% 08.83%
    Jalisco 75.83% 16.76% 07.31%
    Mexico City 54.78% 18.75% 22.79%
    State of Mexico 47.71% 42.13% 10.02%
    Michoacan
    		 70.95% 21.04% 06.94%
    Morelos 61.24% 34.93% 03.59%
    Nayarit 73.45% 20.38% 05.83%
    Nuevo Leon
    		 75.47% 05.14% 19.23%
    Oaxaca 28.15% 69.17% 01.43%
    Puebla 39.34% 54.73% 05.66%
    Querétaro 80.15% 19.40% 00.30%
    Quintana Roo 42.35% 20.59% 15.16%
    San Luis Potosí 61.88% 30.60% 05.41%
    Sinaloa 98.30% 00.93% 00.19%
    Sonora 41.04% 14.00% 42.54%
    Tabasco 53.67% 18.50% 27.56%
    Tamaulipas 69.77% 13.89% 13.62%
    Tlaxcala 42.44% 54.70% 02.53%
    Veracruz 50.09% 36.60% 10.28%
    Yucatán 33.83% 43.31% 21.85%
    Zacatecas 86.10% 08.54% 05.26%
    Population growth in Mexico, from 1910–2015

    When the 1921 census' results are compared with the results of Mexico's recent censuses

    European peoples (with the state's Indigenous population showing almost no foreign admixture either).[142] Various authors theorize that the reason for these inconsistencies may lie in the Mestizo identity promoted by the Mexican government, which reportedly led to people who are not biologically Mestizos to identify as such.[143][144]

    Present day

    Ana de la Reguera Mexican actress who has starred in telenovelas, films, the HBO television series Eastbound & Down and Capadocia.

    The following table is a compilation of (when possible) official nationwide surveys conducted by the Mexican government who have attempted to quantify different Mexican ethnic groups. Given that for the most part each ethnic group was estimated by different surveys, with different methodologies and years apart rather than on a single comprehensive racial census, some groups could overlap with others and be overestimated or underestimated.

    Race or ethnicity Population (est.) Percentage (est.) Year
    Mestizo 62,000,000 90% 2020
    White 40,000,000 9-40% 2020
    Indigenous
    		 11,800,000 9.36% 2020[145]
    Black 2,576,213 2.4% 2020[2]
    Foreigners residing in Mexico
    (of any race)     		1,010,000 <1.0% 2015[146]
    East Asian 1,000,000 <1.0% 2010[147]
    Middle Eastern 400,000 <1.0% 2010[148]
    Jewish
    		 58,876 <1.0% 2020[2]
    Muslim 7,982 <1.0% 2020[2]
    Total 126,014,024 100% 2020[2]

    Population genetics and phenotype

    Genetic ancestry of Mexicans according to various sources[149]

      European (58.96%)
      Amerindian (31.05%)
      African (10.03%)

    Genetic studies

    Distribution of Admixture Estimates for Individuals from Mexico City and Quetalmahue.[150]

    Genetic studies in Mexico can be divided on three groups: studies made on self-identified Mestizos, studies made on Indigenous peoples and studies made on the general Mexican population. Studies that focus on Mexicans of predominantly European descent or Afro-Mexicans have not been made. Mexicans who self-identify as Mestizos are primarily of European and Native American ancestry. The third largest component is African, in coastal areas this is partly a legacy of the slavery in New Spain[151] (200,000 black slaves). However, the authors of this study state that the majority of African ancestry in Mexicans is of North and Sub-Saharan African origin and was brought by the Spaniards themselves as a diluted part of their genetic ancestry.[152]

    According to the average of various studies, Mexicans are on average 58.96% European, 31.05% Amerindian, and 10.03% African. However this varies greatly by methodology and study, some point toward a greater Amerindian admixture whereas others point toward a greater European admixture. Admixture varies by region, wealth, and even study. However, it can be generally assessed that Mexicans (on average) are an even mixture of Native American and European with minor African contribution, with neither European or Native being more dominant in the genetic admixture.[149] According to these studies, Native admixture is more dominant in the Central and Southern regions of Mexico whereas European admixture is more dominant in the Western and Northern regions of Mexico. Mestizos and Amerindians tend to have slightly more dominant Amerindian admixture whereas Mexicans considered White tend to have dominant European admixture.

    Those DNA studies on Mexicans show a significant genetic variation depending on the region analyzed, with the central region of Mexico showing a balance between indigenous and European components,[153] and the latter gradually increasing as one travels northwards and westwards, where European ancestry becomes the majority of the genetic contribution[154] up until cities located at the Mexico–United States border, where studies suggest there is a significant resurgence of indigenous and African admixture. In southern Mexico there is prevalent indigenous Meso-American, but also European admixture, and a small but higher than average African genetic contributions.[155]

    PCA of modern African and Eurasian human genomes. Mexicans are positioned along a cline between the 'Native American' (or 'Asian') cluster and between the European cluster.[156]

    According to numerous studies, on average, the largest genetic component of Mexicans who self-identify as being Mestizos is indigenous, although the difference in incidence between the indigenous and European composites is relatively small, both representing well over 40% of the genetic composition of Mestizos.[157]

    In two studies of Mexicans from Mexico City and the United States, researchers noted that Mexicans had mostly European ancestry, with Native American ancestry making up 44% of the general ancestry of Mexicans. However, Native American

    Latinos, through intermarriages that mostly involved European men and Native American women.[158][159]

    Extant research suggests that geographic location plays a more significant role on determining the genetic makeup of the average Indigenous person than cultural traits do, an example of this is the indigenous population of

    Nahua-speaking Indigenous peoples from Coyolillo, Veracruz, having a mean European ancestry of 42% and an African ancestry of 22%.[161]

    Regional Variation of ancestry according to a study made by Ruiz-Linares in 2014, each dot represents a volunteer, with most coming from south Mexico and Mexico City.[91]

    The Mestizaje ideology, which has blurred the lines of race at an institutional level has also had a significant influence in genetic studies done in Mexico:[162] As the criterion used in studies to determine if a Mexican is Mestizo or indigenous often lies in cultural traits such as the language spoken instead of racial self-identification or a phenotype-based selection there are studies on which populations who are considered to be Indigenous per virtue of the language spoken show a higher degree of European genetic admixture than the one populations considered to be Mestizo report in other studies.[161] The opposite also happens, as there instances on which populations considered to be Mestizo show genetic frequencies very similar to continental European peoples in the case of Mestizos from the state of Durango[142] or to European derived Americans in the case of Mestizos from the state of Jalisco.[163]

    In 1991, an autosomal study was performed in Mexicans from the states of Nuevo Leon, Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí, with a sample pool of 207. It found the average admixture to be 78.46% Spanish and 21.54% "Mexican Indian" (Indigenous). The data also shows younger generations having higher Native American admixture compared to older ones. In the report, the oldest generation had an averaged total of 91.14% Spanish ancestry.[164]

    Mexican states by population density

    A 2006 study conducted by Mexico's

    National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN), which genotyped 104 samples, reported that mestizo Mexicans are 58.96% European, 35.05% "Asian" (Native American), and 5.03% Black. Of the six states that participated in the Study, the state of Sonora showed the highest European ancestry being approximately 70% while the State of Guerrero presented the lowest European ancestry, at around 50%.[165] However is 2009, the same team published an updated finding, which sampled 300 Mexicans who self-identified as Mestizos, the average admixture was calculated to be 55.2% percent Native American, 41.8% European, 2% African, and 0.5% Asian.[157]

    In 2014, researchers looked through approximately twenty previous studies done on the admixture of Mexicans. Their general conclusion was the average Mexican is more Native American than European.[166]

    Subsequently, in 2015, a separate team of researchers performed a meta-analysis, incorporating the findings of many previous studies with additional research. This comprehensive analysis revealed a genetic composition with an average of 62% Native American, 32% European, and 6% African.[167]

    A 2017 study reported highly variable ancestry in Mexican Mestizos, ranging from 70.2%–46.2% Amerindian; 25.4%–48.7% European; 2.8%–5.2% African (Martínez-Cortés et al., 2017).[168]

    In 2014, a genetic study gave results of 56.0% Amerindian; 37.0% European; and 5.0% African for Mexican Mestizos.[91] The authors reported similar findings of geographical variation, as in other studies. Native American ancestry is lower in northerly regions of Mexico, and higher in the south. African ancestry is generally quite low across most of Mexico, with the exception of a small number of coastal communities.

    An autosomal study performed in Mestizos from Mexico's three largest cities reported that Mestizos from Mexico city had an average ancestry of 50% European, 5% African and 49% Amerindian whereas Mestizos from the cities of Monterrey and Guadalajara had both a European ancestry of 60% and an indigenous ancestry of 40% in average.[169]

    Trivate for ancestry, from the same study as the image above (Ruiz-Linares in 2014).[91]

    An autosomal study performed in Mexico City reported that Mexican mestizos' mean ancestry was 57% European, 40% Amerindian and 3% African. However, the sample pool was extremely low at only 19. Researchers Francisco Mauro Salzano and Mónica Sans referred to it as an "anomalous value" in their report mentioned earlier.[150][166]

    Additional studies suggests a tendency relating a higher European admixture with a higher socioeconomic status and a higher Amerindian ancestry with a lower socioeconomic status: a study made exclusively on low income Mestizos residing in Mexico City found the mean admixture to be 0.590, 0.348, and 0.162 for Amerindian, European and African respectively whereas the European admixture increased to an average of around 70% on mestizos belonging to a higher socioeconomical level.[170]

    An autosomal genetic study which included the states of

    Queretaro and Mexico City determined the average ancestry of the central region of Mexico to be 52% European 39% Amerindian, and 9% African.[171]

    An autosomal genetic study performed in the town of

    state of Hidalgo reported that the average genetic ancestry of the town's autochthonous (indigenous) population was 64% Amerindian, 25% European and 11% African.[172]

    A 2012 study published by the

    South-west Asia and the Middle East.[176]

    Depending on the region, some may have small traces of Asian admixture due to the thousands of Filipinos and Chinos (Asian slaves of diverse origins, not just Chinese) that arrived on the

    Nao de China. More recent Asian immigration (specifically Chinese) may help explain the comparatively high Asian contribution in Northwest Mexico (i.e., Sonora).[157]

    Etiological studies

    Etiological studies are genetic studies on which volunteers suffer of a specific health condition/disease, as diseases tend to manifest on higher frequencies on people with a determinated genetic ancestry, the results of said studies are not accurate to represent the genetics of the population said volunteers belong to as a whole

    Phenotypical research

    Pancho Villa and followers from the Division of the North
    Emiliano Zapata and followers of the Liberation Army of the South

    Albeit not as numerous or with a history as long as genetic research in the country, studies regarding the presence of different phenotypical traits (hair color, hair shape, eye color etc.) in Mexicans have been made. Those studies have recently gained the attention of Mexico's government which has begun conducting its own nationwide investigations, with the aim of document dynamics and inequalities on interactions between Mexicans of different ethnicities/races as well as to have a more concise idea of the ethnic composition of the country (a field that has been long neglected at an institutional level in Mexico). The results of these studies effectively refute misconceptions regarding Mexico's population, showing that Mexico is an exceptionally diverse country, where any color or type of trait can be found with ease in any region.

    Some studies, such as the one published by the American Sociological Association refute misconceptions that are very prevalent even among Mexicans themselves, as it found the differences in the frequencies of phenotypical traits such as blond hair between the population of the Northern regions of Mexico (where this trait has a frequency of 22.3%–23.9%) and the population of the Central regions of Mexico (with a frequency of 18.9%–21.3%) are not as pronounced as are commonly thought to be. Per the methodology of the study, the presence of blond hair was required for a Mexican to be classified as white as "unlike skin color, blond hair does not darken with sun exposure".[90] With a similar methodology, other study, made by the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico calculated the frequency of blond hair at 23%, Mexicans with red hair were classified as "other".[89]

    A 2014 study made by the University College London analyzed the frequencies of several different phenotypical traits on populations of five different Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru). In the case of Mexico the National Institute of Anthropology and History collaborated in the investigation with the results being the following:[91]

    Eye color  blue/grey   honey   green   light brown   dark brown/black 
    Males 1% 2% 6% 21% 71%
    Females 1% 3% 4% 21% 72%
    Hair color  red/reddish   blond   dark blond/light brown   brown/black 
    Males 0% 1% 12% 86%
    Females 0% 2% 21% 77%
    Hair shape  straight   wavy   curly   frizzy 
    Males 45% 43% 12% 0%
    Females 46% 41% 12% 1%

    The majority of the samples (approx. 90%) hailed from Mexico City and Southern Mexican states, meaning that Northern and Western regions of Mexico were under-represented as around 45% of Mexico's population lives there.[91]

    Results of the survey conducted by the CONAPRED in 2010.[180]

    Nationwide surveys sponsored by the Mexican government that quantify the percentage of the different skin tones present on Mexico's population have been made, the first in 2010 by the

    INEGI (Mexico's National Institute of Statistics).[80][95]
    Each study used a different color palette, in the case of CONAPRED's study it was a palette with 9 color choices developed by the institute itself whereas in the case of the INEGI study the palette used was the palette for the PERLA (Latin American Race and Ethnicity Project) with 11 color categories.

    Skin type Percentage
    (INEGI 2017)
     A  0.2%
     B  0.5%
     C  1.0%
     D  3.0%
     E  2.7%
     F  13.0%
     G  30.0%
     H  37.4%
     I  5.2%
     J  4.9%
     K  2.1%

    As the progression from the darker tones to the lightest ones is not as uniform in the palette used by the INEGI (some tones are practically the same while there are marked differences between others) as it is in the CONAPRED's palette, two color categories ended up containing nearly 70% of surveyed Mexicans whereas there were color categories that had less than 1% of Mexicans each. Even though Mexico's government has downplayed the racial connotations of said studies by opting for using the term "light-skinned Mexican" to refer to the segment of Mexico's population who possess European physical traits/appearance and "dark-skinned Mexican" to refer the segment of Mexico's population who does not, the publication of said studies has not been free of controversy, specially in the case of the study published in 2017 as besides skin color it also accounted for different socioeconomic factors such as educational achievements and occupational profiles, with media outlets bringing to Mexico's mainstream opinion circles concepts such as systemic racism, white privilege, and colonialism.[181][182] Nonetheless it is agreed that to acknowledge that Mexico is a diverse country constitutes a step in the right direction to fight social inequalities.

    In 2018, the new edition of the ENADIS was published, this time being a joint effort by the CONAPRED and the INEGI with collaboration of the

    CNDH.[96] Like its 2010 antecessor, it surveyed Mexican citizens about topics related to discrimination and collected data related to phenotype and ethnic self-identification. It concluded that Mexico is still a fairly conservative country regarding minority groups such as religious minorities, ethnic minorities, foreigners, members of the LGBT collective etc. albeit there are pronounced regional differences, with states in the south-center regions of Mexico having in general notoriously higher discrimination rates towards the aforementioned social groups than the ones states in the western-north regions have.[96] For the collecting of data related to skin color the palette used was again the PERLA one. This time 11% of Mexicans were reported to have "dark skin tones (A–E)" 59% to have "medium skin tones (F–G)" and 29% to have "light skin tones (H–K)".[96] The reason for the huge difference regarding the reported percentages of Mexicans with light skin (around 18% lower) and medium skin (around 16% higher) in the relation to previous nationwide surveys lies in the fact that the ENADIS 2017 prioritized the surveying of Mexicans from "vulnerable groups" which among other measures meant that states with known high numbers of people from said groups surveyed more people.[97]

    The following tables (the first from a study published in 2002[183] and the second from a study published in 2018[184]) show the frequencies of different blood types in various Mexican cities and states, as Mexico's Amerindian/Indigenous population exclusively exhibits the "O" blood type, the presence of other blood groups can give an approximate idea of the amount of foreign influence there is in each state that has been analyzed. The results of this studies however, should not be taken as exact, literal estimations for the percentages of different ethnic groups that there may be in Mexico (i.e. A+B blood groups = percentage of White Mexicans) for reasons such as the fact that a Mestizo Mexican can have A, B etc. blood types or the fact that the O blood type does exist in Europe, with it having a frequency of 44% in Spain for example.[185]

    City State O (%) A (%) B (%) AB (%)
    La Paz Baja California Sur 58.49% 31.4% 8.40% 1.71%
    Guadalajara Jalisco 57.2% 31.2% 9.7% 1.9%
    Gómez Palacio Durango 57.99% 29.17% 10.76% 2.08%
    Ciudad Victoria Tamaulipas 63.6% 27.3% 7.4% 1.7%
    Monterrey
    Nuevo Leon
    		 63.1% 26.5% 9.0% 1.4%
    Veracruz Veracruz 64.2% 25.7% 8.1% 2.0%
    Saltillo Coahuila 64.2% 24.9% 9.7% 1.2%
    Saladero Veracruz 60.5% 28.6% 10.9% 0.0%
    Torreón Coahuila 66.35% 24.47% 8.3% 0.88%
    Mexico City Mexico City 67.7% 23.4% 7.2% 1.7%
    Durango
    		 Durango 55.1% 38.6% 6.3% 0.0%
    Ciudad del Carmen Campeche 69.7% 22.0% 6.4% 1.8%
    Mérida
    Yucatan
    		 67.5% 21.1% 10.5% 0.9%
    Leon Guanajuato 65.3% 24.7% 6.0% 4.0%
    Zacatecas
    		 Zacatecas 61.9% 22.2% 13.5% 2.4%
    Tlaxcala
    		 Tlaxcala 71.7% 19.6% 6.5% 2.2%
    Puebla Puebla 72.3% 19.5% 7.4% 0.8%
    Oaxaca Oaxaca 71.8% 20.5% 7.7% 0.0%
    Paraiso Tabasco 75.8% 14.9% 9.3% 0.0%
    Total ~~ 65.0% 25.0% 8.6% 1.4%
    State O (%) A (%) B (%) AB (%)
    Baja California Norte
    		 60.25% 28.79% 9.03% 1.92%
    Sonora 58.58% 30.48% 9.11% 1.84%
    Sinaloa 56.46% 32.93% 8.56% 2.05%
    Durango 59.29% 26.89% 11.33% 2.50%
    Coahuila 66.17% 23.49% 9.01% 1.33%
    Nuevo Leon
    		 62.43% 25.62% 10.10% 1.85%
    Nayarit 59.20% 29.62% 9.32% 1.85%
    Jalisco 57.85% 29.95% 9.78% 2.42%
    Michoacan
    		 60.25% 29.51% 9.04% 2.44%
    Puebla 74.36% 18.73% 6.05% 0.87%
    Veracruz 67.82% 21.90% 8.94% 1.34%
    San Luis Potosi
    		 67.47% 24.27% 7.28% 0.97%
    Aguascalientes 61.42% 26.25% 10.28% 2.05%
    Guanajuato 61.98% 26.83% 9.33% 1.85%
    Queretaro
    		 65.71% 23.60% 9.40% 1.29%
    State of Mexico 70.68% 21.11% 7.18% 1.04%
    Mexico City 66.72% 23.70% 8.04% 1.54%
    Total 61.82% 27.43% 8.93% 1.81%

    Both studies find similar trends regarding the distribution of different blood groups, with foreign blood groups being more common in the North and Western regions of Mexico, which is congruent with the findings of genetic studies that have been made in the country through the years. It is also observed that A and B blood groups are more common among younger volunteers whereas AB and O are more common in older ones. The total number of analyzed samples in the 2018 study was 271,164.

    A study performed in hospitals of Mexico City reported that on average 51.8% of Mexican newborns presented the

    congenital skin birthmark known as the Mongolian spot whilst it was absent in 48.2% of the analyzed babies.[186] The Mongolian spot appears with a very high frequency (85–95%) in Asian, Native American and African children.[187] The skin lesion reportedly almost always appears on South American[188] and Mexican children who are racially Mestizos[189] while having a very low frequency (5–10%) in Caucasian children.[190] According to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) nationwide, around half of Mexican babies have the Mongolian spot.[191]

    Languages

    Main articles: Languages of Mexico and Mexican Spanish
    Map for the year 2000 of the indigenous languages of Mexico having more than 100,000 speakers

    Mexicans are linguistically diverse, with many speaking European languages as well as various Indigenous Mexican Languages. Spanish is spoken by approximately 92.17% of Mexicans as their first language making them the largest Spanish speaking group in the world[192] followed by Colombia (45,273,925), Spain (41,063,259)[193] and Argentina (40,134,425). Although the great majority speak Spanish de facto the second most populous language among Mexicans is English due to the regional proximity of the United States which calls for a bilingual relationship in order to conduct business and trade as well as the migration of Mexicans into that country who adopt it as a second language.

    Mexican Spanish is distinct in dialect, tone and syntax to the Peninsular Spanish spoken in Spain. It contains a large amount of loan words from indigenous languages, mostly from the Nahuatl language such as: chocolate, tomate, mezquite, chile, and coyote.[194]

    Mexico has no official de jure language,

    National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples recognizes the language of the Kickapoo who immigrated from the United States,[197] and recognizes the languages of Guatemalan Amerindian refugees.[198] The most numerous indigenous language spoken by Mexicans is Nahuatl, which is spoken by 1.7% of the population in Mexico over the age of 5. Approximately 6,044,547 Mexicans (5.4%) speak an indigenous language according to the 2000 Census in Mexico.[199] There are also Mexicans living abroad which speak indigenous languages mostly in the United States but their number is unknown.[200]

    English is also spoken. Other European languages spoken in Mexico are Plautdietsch, French, German, Romani, and Venetian.

    Culture

    Main article: Culture of Mexico
    View of Zócalo, Mexico City

    Mexican culture reflects the complexity of the country's history through the blending of indigenous cultures and the culture of Spain, imparted during Spain's 300-year colonization of Mexico. Exogenous cultural elements mainly from the United States have been incorporated into Mexican culture.[201]

    The Porfirian era (el Porfiriato), in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, was marked by economic progress and peace. After four decades of civil unrest and war, Mexico saw the development of philosophy and the arts, promoted by President Díaz himself. Since that time, as accentuated during the Mexican Revolution, cultural identity has had its foundation in the mestizaje, of which the indigenous (i.e. Amerindian) element is the core. In light of the various ethnicities that formed the Mexican people, José Vasconcelos in his publication La Raza Cósmica (The Cosmic Race) (1925) defined Mexico to be the melting pot of all races (thus extending the definition of the mestizo) not only biologically but culturally as well.[202] This exalting of mestizaje was a revolutionary idea that sharply contrasted with the idea of a superior pure race prevalent in Europe at the time.

    Literature

    Main articles: Mexican literature and Mesoamerican literature
    Cultural Center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
    .
    David Huerta in Tepoztlán, 2018

    The literature of Mexico has its antecedents in the literatures of the indigenous settlements of Mesoamerica. The most well known prehispanic poet is Nezahualcoyotl. Modern Mexican literature was influenced by the concepts of the Spanish colonialization of Mesoamerica. Outstanding writers and poets from the Spanish period include Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and Juana Inés de la Cruz.

    In light of the various ethnicities that formed the Mexican people,

    La Raza Cósmica (The Cosmic Race) (1925) defined Mexico to be the melting pot of all races, biologically as well as culturally.[202]

    Other writers include

    Bruno Traven
    wrote Canasta de cuentos mexicanos, El tesoro de la Sierra Madre.

    Science

    Main article: History of science and technology in Mexico
    Luis E. Miramontes (right) with Mario Molina, c. 1995

    The

    National Polytechnic Institute (founded in 1936),[206] were established during the first half of the 20th century. Most of the new research institutes were created within UNAM. Twelve institutes were integrated into UNAM from 1929 to 1973.[207] In 1959, the Mexican Academy of Sciences
    was created to coordinate scientific efforts between academics.

    In 1995 the Mexican chemist

    Mario J. Molina shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul J. Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.[208] Molina, an alumnus of UNAM, became the first Mexican citizen to win the Nobel Prize in science.[209]

    In recent years, the largest scientific project being developed in Mexico was the construction of the Large Millimeter Telescope (Gran Telescopio Milimétrico, GMT), the world's largest and most sensitive single-aperture telescope in its frequency range.[210] It was designed to observe regions of space obscured by stellar dust.

    Music

    Main article: Music of Mexico
    See also: List of Mexican composers of classical music
    Ximena Sariñana, composer and singer

    Mexican society enjoys a vast array of music genres, showing the diversity of Mexican culture. Traditional music includes mariachi, banda, Norteño, ranchera, cumbia, and corridos; on an everyday basis most Mexicans listen to contemporary music such as pop, rock, etc. in both English and Spanish. Mexico has the largest media industry in Hispanic America, producing Mexican artists who are famous in Central and South America and parts of Europe, especially Spain.[211]

    Some well-known Mexican singers are

    Mexican rock
    has seen widespread growth both domestically and internationally.

    Cinema

    Main article: Cinema of Mexico
    Gael García Bernal, actor and producer

    El angel exterminador (1963). Famous actors and actresses from this period include María Félix, Pedro Infante, Dolores del Río, Jorge Negrete and the comedian Cantinflas
    .

    More recently, films such as

    The Crime of Father Amaro), and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga
    are some of the most known present-day film makers.

    Visual arts

    See also: Mexican art
    Pasadena
    (California). January 2010

    Post-revolutionary art in Mexico had its expression in the works of renowned artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Federico Cantú Garza, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Juan O'Gorman. Diego Rivera, the most well-known figure of Mexican muralism, painted the Man at the Crossroads at the Rockefeller Center in New York City, a huge mural that was destroyed the next year because of the inclusion of a portrait of Russian communist leader Lenin.[213] Some of Rivera's murals are displayed at the Mexican National Palace and the Palace of Fine Arts.

    Architecture

    Main article: Architecture of Mexico

    For the artistic relevance of many of Mexico's architectural structures, including entire sections of prehispanic and colonial cities, have been designated World Heritage. The country has the first place in number of sites declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the Americas.[214]

    Cuisine

    Main article: Mexican cuisine
    Mole is the national dish of Mexico

    Mexican cuisine is influenced by Spanish and indigenous cultures.

    papayas, chilies, avocados, and pineapples.[215]

    Holidays

    The Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) is an important Mexican holiday observed by Mexicans. The holiday is influenced by Mesoamerican ritual, European religion and Spanish culture.[216] The holiday traces its roots to the Aztecs and the tradition was first practiced thousands of years ago by indigenous peoples such as the Aztecs and the Toltecs.[217]

    Religion

    Main article: Religion in Mexico

    Religion in Mexico (2017)[218]

      Catholic Church (80%)
      Other Christians (5%)
      Other religions (3%)
      Non-religious (11%)
      Unspecified (1%)
    Day of the Dead celebration

    Mexico has no official

    Protestant incursion partly because Protestantism in Mexico has long been associated with the United States,[223] which leads to the reinforcement of Catholicism as part of the Mexican identity.[223]

    The

    Constitution of 1917 imposed limitations on the church and sometimes codified state intrusion into church matters. The government does not provide financial contributions to the church, nor does the church participate in public education. However, Christmas is a national holiday and every year during Easter
    and Christmas all schools in Mexico, public and private, send their students on vacation.

    In 1992, Mexico lifted almost all restrictions on religion, including granting all religious groups legal status, conceding them limited property, and lifting restrictions on the number of priests in the country.[224] Until recently,[when?] priests did not have the right to vote, and even now they cannot be elected to public office.

    The Catholic Church is the dominant religion in Mexico, with about 80% of the population as of 2017,[218] which is the world's second largest number of Catholics, surpassed only by Brazil.[225] Movements of return and revival of the indigenous Mesoamerican religions (Mexicayotl, Toltecayotl) have also appeared in recent decades.[226][227]

    Diaspora

    Main article: Emigration from Mexico

    There is a large Mexican diaspora in the United States. They are concentrated in California and Texas. The Greater Los Angeles area is home to a large Mexican immigrant population.[228] There is also a sizeable Mexican population in Canada is home to the next largest population of Mexican in Canada, Spain, Guatemala, and Germany.[229]

    See also

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