Mexican Influence around the World Thread

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Mexican Influence around the World Thread.

Post anything that has Mexican influence. It can be dishes,food,music,culture,entertainment,Art,etc etc.
Their is thousands of dishes around the world that have Mexican influence.


Most popular memes used in forums around the world have Mexican origins.

Dos Equis is Mexican Beer.
- The Most Interesting Man in the World came into existence as part of a Dos Equis ad campaign. - The Most Interesting Man in the World started as a beer commercial, now it is one of the most popular memes of all time.



Eating pop corn memes.
Pop Corn is native to Mexico
Tens of thousands of years before there were movies, there was popcorn.

Archaeologists have found 80,000-year-old corn pollen below Mexico City. Because this pollen is almost exactly the same as modern popcorn pollen, researchers believe that "cave people" most likely had popcorn.

The oldest popcorn ever found was discovered in the "Bat Cave" of central New Mexico. It is thought to be about 5,600 years old.

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ethanol
Corn ethanol is produced by means of ethanol fermentation and distillation. Corn ethanol is mainly used as an oxygenate in gasoline to produce a low-level blend. To a lesser extent, it is used as fuel for E85 flex-fuel vehicles. Corn is the main feedstock used for producing ethanol fuel in the United States .

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The best beer in the world, the Mexican beer Corona (founded by a Spaniard by the way)

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No Thanksgiving without Turkey

Turkeys Were Tamed in Mexico 1,500 Years Ago - Live Science
Archaeologists discover the earliest known evidence of turkey domestication.
In a clutch of intact eggs in a fortress in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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The best beer in the world, the Mexican beer Corona (founded by a Spaniard by the way)

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Imagine a Valentines day without Chocolates around the world..

From at least the time of the Aztecs, chocolate has been seen as an aphrodisiac. So it's reasonable to assume that it has been connected to love's dedicated day of celebration for many centuries.

Bernal Díaz Castillo, chronicler of Hernan Cortéz´s conquest of Mexico, claimed that during a banquet with Moctezuma, the great Aztec emperor was served gold cups "with a certain drink made of cacao, which they said was for success with woman." At first the Spaniard paid little attention, but then "saw that they brought more than 50 great jars of prepared cacao with its foam, and he drank that."

Mugs of the frothy drink proved immediately popular back in Spain. And chocolate was embraced with equal passion when it traveled beyond Spain's borders, going to Italy, France (perhaps in 1615, when Anne of Austria, chocolate lover and daughter of the Spanish king, married Louis XIII), and, step by step, across Europe.

Wherever chocolate went, its reputation as a sexual stimulant seemed to follow. Giacomo Casanova called chocolate the "elixir of love" and the notorious Marquis de Sade celebrated its potency.

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No Thanksgiving without Turkey

Turkeys Were Tamed in Mexico 1,500 Years Ago - Live Science
Archaeologists discover the earliest known evidence of turkey domestication.
In a clutch of intact eggs in a fortress in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Turkeys, along with the chicken, are genetically the closest living relatives of the T.Rex. Yes, Birds are living theropod dinosaurs.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health...and_other.html

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The Lowriders and cholos {as} of Japan.Japanese obsessed with Chicano sub culture.





The imagery looks plucked directly from East L.A. in 1995: lowriders cruising slowly down narrow streets or parked in long lines on the side of the road, flanked by tattooed men in white shirts and caps emblazoned with the insignia of the Los Angeles Dodgers. But this isn’t Los Angeles, and the men aren’t speaking either English or Spanish: they’re speaking Japanese.








These men and the devoted subculture they’ve created in parts of Tokyo and Osaka are the subject of a new documentary, Chicano, directed by the British filmmakers Louis Ellison and Jacob Hodgkinson. The film highlights a group of Japanese people’s intense obsession with the Chicano culture of East Los Angeles, particularly those elements of it associated with cholo/a (or gang) style. The Japanese devotees have all the aesthetic trappings: low shorts, high socks, tons of gear repping L.A., and tattoos covering their torsos.





“What was most interesting and exciting to me was the attention to detail,” says Ellison, one of the directors. “Like any subculture in Japan, they’ve dedicated themselves completely and they spend a lot of time and a lot of money to make sure they’ve got everything exactly right.”











Cholo/Chicano culture began making its way into Japan in the late ‘80s and ‘90s, mainly via media like Lowrider Magazine, according to Shin Miyata, one of the film’s subjects and the owner of Chicano/Japanese record label Barrio Gold. Miyata himself traveled to L.A. in the ‘80s and became fascinated with lowrider culture and the Chicanos who were a part of it. When he came back, he explains in the film, he tried to replicate what he’d seen and teach other people, too.

That replication appears to be based mainly in aesthetics and some cultural practices like making lowriders. But several of the men in the film also speak about feeling a deeper connection across cultures, rooting their Chicano cultural practices in things they feel exist in Japan, too.

“In Japan, people have strong family values and have a strong social identity. They keep where they are from or where they grew up deeply in their minds. In this same way.

“We feel affinity toward them and connect in the way they express their opinions, love their crews, family, and work hard on the things that they love. In my opinion this is what brings the Chicano and Japanese cultures together.”

Our Lady of Japanese Fashion – Graphic Art, Tortillas, Comics, and ...

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The Book of Mormon and Mormons obession with Mexico's natives.

Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize the History of Mexico to produce the Book of Ether?

The timing of its publication makes it impossible for Joseph Smith to have seen even the first volume prior to the submission of the Book of Mormon manuscript to publishers

It is claimed that a 16th century work by Fernando de Alva Ixtilxochitl, History of Mexico, provided source material for Joseph Smith's construction of the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon.

The History of Mexico theory is yet another attempt to fit a secular origin to the Book of Mormon. The timing of its publication makes it impossible for Joseph Smith to have seen even the first volume prior to the submission of the Book of Mormon manuscript to publishers. Moreover, the relevant volume is volume nine, which was published many years after the Book of Mormon. The parallel between History of Mexico and The Book of Mormon, if anything, supports the claim that The Book of Mormon is a genuine historical record, although of course it would be overreaching to conclude that it proves the truth of The Book of Mormon.

Writing of History of Mexico

Fernando de Alva Ixtilxochitl was a Catholic priest of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry. He lived from approximately 1568 to 1647. He wrote several works of history, and is recognized by some historians as being particularly astute, partly because of his mixed ancestry that allowed him access to more knowledgeable people than he otherwise would have been able to learn from.[1] Ixtilxochitl's works are often known under the Spanish titles Obras Historicas or Historica Chichimeca

Parallels between History of Mexico and the Book of Ether

Ixtilxochitl's history includes an account of the origin of the first settlers of Mexico. In the original Spanish, it reads: "Y como despues multiplicandose los hombres hicieron un zacualli muy alto y fuerte, que quiere decir la torre altisima, para guarecerse en el cuando se tornase a destruir el segundo mundo. Al mejor tiempo se les mudaron las lenguas, y no entendiendose unos a otros, se fueron a diversas partes del mundo; y los tultecas, que fueron hasta siete companeros con sus mujeres, que se entendian la lengua, se vinieron a estas partes, habiendo primero pasado grandes tierras y mares, viviendo en las cuevas y pasando grandes trabajos, hasta venir a esta tierra, que la hallaron buena y fertil para su habitacion."[2]

In his 1989 book, Exploring the Lands of the Book of Mormon, Joseph Allen translated the above passage to read as follows: "[After the flood, the people] built a Zacualli very high and strong, which means 'The Very High Tower,' to protect themselves against a second destruction of the world. As time elapsed, their language became confounded, such that they did not understand one another; and they were scattered to all parts of the earth. The Tultecas, consisting of seven men and their wives, were able to understand each other; and they came to this land, having first crossed many lands and waters, living in caves and passing through great trials and tribulations. Upon their arrival here, they discovered that it was a very good and fertile land."[3]

This obviously parallels Ether 1 and LDS teaching, which recount how the Jaredite colony migrated from Babel, at the time of the Tower of Babel as also recorded in Genesis 11:1-9, to a "Promised Land" in the western hemisphere.

TRANSLATION OF HISTORY OF MEXICO

The first known translation of Ixtilxochitl's history into English was in Edward King, Lord Kingsborough's book Antiquities of Mexico. This was a nine-volume work; the first volume was published in 1830 or 1831 and the ninth was not published until after Lord Kingsborough's death in 1837. Lord Kingsborough put his personal fortune on the line for the publication, which featured luxurious materials and hand-painted illustrations. He over-extended himself and was sent to debtors' prison.[4] The extremely high quality of the printing, and the therefore extremely high price of the volumes, make it incredibly unlikely that Joseph Smith ever saw a copy of this work.

https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Q...ok_of_Ether%3F

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Feb 10, 2011 - In the U.S., moviegoers snack on typical vendor fare like nachos, chocolate-covered candy and popcorn.