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CULTURAL COMPARISON BETWEEN PUERTO RICO AND MEXICO 1

CULTURAL COMPARISON BETWEEN PUERTO RICO AND MEXICO 2

Cultural Comparison between Puerto Rico and Mexico

Alycia Philogene

University of Phoenix

The culture of Mexico reflects the country's complex history and is the result of the steady unification of native Mexican culture, Spanish culture, and other immigrant cultures. The main religion of Mexico Roman Catholicism due to Spanish colonization. Mexico is known for its folk art traditions, mostly derived from the indigenous and Spanish crafts. Distinguished handiworks include clay pottery originating from the valleys of Oaxaca and Tonala. Mexican literature has its backgrounds in the works of the local communities of Mesoamerica. A well- recognized pre-hispanic composer is Netzahualcoyotl. Recent Mexican works were influenced by the concepts of the Spanish colonialization of Mesoamerica (Fuster, 2015).

Mexican holidays are known as "Fiestas." During these festivities, people honor their saints by praying and burning candles to in churches decorated with flowers and colorful utensils. Popular dishes in Mexico include tacos, enchiladas, mole sauce, atole, tamales, and pozole. Popular beverages include water flavored with a variety of fruit juices, and cinnamon-flavored hot chocolate prepared with milk or water and blended until it becomes frothed using a traditional wooden tool called a molinillo. Traditional music includes Mariachi, Banda, Norteño, Ranchera, and Corridos. The traditional national sport of Mexico is Charreria, also known as the rodeo. Bullfighting is also popular. Football is the most popular team sport in Mexico consisting of teams like Chivas de Guadalajara and Club América. The country hosted the FIFA World Cup in 1970 and 1986 and was the first country to host the FIFA World Cup twice (Sheinin, 2015).

The capital of Puerto Rico in San Juan. It was founded in 1508, by Juan Ponce de León. It is also Puerto Rico's main port of entry and has one of the best harbors in the Caribbean. The island's architectural legacy is Spanish as seen in the narrow, winding cobblestone streets and the pastel-colored, tile-roofed buildings with ornate balconies and heavy wooden doors that open onto inner courtyards in the style of Andalusia in southern Spain (Markovich, Preiser, & Sturm, 2015). The best source of information on the island about Puerto Rican arts and crafts is the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in the Dominican Convent in Old San Juan. The collection ranges from pre-Columbian artifacts to works by today's major painters (Fuster, 2015).

Las Americas Avenue is the greatest art on the island at the Museo de Arte de Ponce. Puerto Rican cooking is frequently related to Spanish, Cuban and Mexican cookery. It is an exceptional appetizing merger of Spanish, African, Taíno, and American recipes, using native flavors and ingredients such as coriander, papaya, cacao, nispero, apio, plantains, and yampee. Locals call their cuisine "cocina criolla." Cocina Criolla can be map out back to the Arawaks and Tainos, the original residents of the island, who survived on a diet of corn, tropical fruit, and seafood. Boating and Sailing is a common sport in blue waters of Puerto Rico. Cockfighting or peleas de gallos is a popular sport of pitting game-cocks to fight and the breeding and training of them for that purpose (Sheinin, 2015).

References

Fuster, M. (2015). Writing Cuisine in the Spanish Caribbean: A Comparative Analysis of Iconic Puerto Rican and Cuban cookbooks. Food, Culture & Society, 18(4), 659-680.

Markovich, N. C., Preiser, W. F., & Sturm, F. G. (2015). Pueblo style and regional architecture. Routledge.

Sheinin, D. M. (Ed.). (2015). Sports Culture in Latin American History. University of Pittsburgh Press.