Acculturation of mexican indigens

Acculturation of the Indigens in Mexico

The process of globalization has affected all society issues, such as science, economics, politics, culture and obviously, influencing all types of societies, from the most complex to the simplest.There are theories that postulate that will emerge a global or universal culture, but this theory is extreme in that it provides a homogeneous culture and unique worldwide. This is nothing new, instead it has been part of our societies since history can recall it. Acculturation is a process by which a receiving culture assimilates and incorporates elements from another culture or another group that has been in direct and continuous contact for some time like the Mexican indigens. Mexican Indigens have been submitted to drastic changes throughout history, since even before the Spanish conquest through the present day. Although, acculturation is something that we all have experience somehow in our life, this can have either a good or bad reactions to the society in general.

In the early 1500's Mexico was submitted to a cultural change, when the Spanish people arrived to this country. The problem of transforming the lives and culture of the inhabitants of the New World under the influence of people from Europe that completely destroyed the order of existing things and brought in place new structures social-political, previously unknown achievements in the field of material culture and a new conception of the world woke long been the interest of researchers in different specialties within the social sciences, but especially the interest of ethnographers.The problems and the processes linked to complicated set of phenomena of acculturation came to be a subject of many considerations and scientific ...

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...n those regions where , until today , there are large crowds of Indian population , yet integrated . Linked to this is , often , isolation and discrimination against Indians , but not racism , because this does not exist in Mexico , in the strict sense of the word, but precisely discrimination and various forms of exploitation of the Indians, usually linked to it.The isolation and backwardness of the regions of refuge favored and continue to favor, even today, conservation, on his land, for today and anachronistic social and economic relations, which hinder the development of cultural transformations, both addressed as "spontaneous" . Influenced them, too decisively, to maintain, to this day, in the Indian centers are not integrated, the enormous importance of the traditional socio-political structure, relic of the colonial era, and the cargo system linked to it.