A Short Introduction to Mexico

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A Short Introduction to Mexico

• A Country in Transition
• Read 1-13, take notes, and pick out 2 interesting
  quotes be ready to discuss them

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One of many maps that we will examine
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Climate Map
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Peaks and Valleys
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Vegetation
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Awesome map site
http//www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/mexico.html
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Pyramids of Teotihuacan
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Snow in Chihuahua
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The Deserts of Sonora
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Mexico City
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Continued
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Mexico Citys First Skyscraper
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Masked Wrestling
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Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City
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Felipe Calderon Pres. Of Mexico PAN Party
member
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Vicente Fox The Man Who Broke PRIs one party
hold
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The Lure of the Border Towns

• Nuevo Laredo in old MexicoThe other tourists
  they're spending their doughBut she spends her
  time singing love songs you seeAnd everytime she
  sang a song she thre a kiss to meIn Nuevo Laredo
  the moon is aglow in Nuevo Laredo in old
  MexicoIn Nuevo Laredo the blue Rio GrandeWas
  bright in the moonlight as I held her handShe
  sang me a love song the whole lovely nightWe
  kissed and kissed and kissed and kissed intil the
  the morning lightIn Nuevo Laredo the moon is
  aglow in Nuevo Laredo in old Mexico
• - Hank Snow
• , way down there in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,
  Spanish señorita there, th' wind blows thru' her
  long black hair Sir Douglas Quintet
• In a little border town
• There ain't no God in Mexico, ain't no way to
  understandHow that border-crossing feeling makes
  a fool out of a manain't no God in Mexico ain't
  no comfort in the canWhen you're down in
  Matamoros gettin' busted by the man- Waylon
  Jennings

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Finally, the Themes

• Similarities to the U.S.
• Major differences
• Structural federalism (paper vs. reality)
• One party rule
• The long-term effects of history

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Infant Mortality Rates

• Mexico total 19.01 deaths/1,000 live births
• Russia total 10.81 deaths/1,000 live births
• Nigeria total 95.74 deaths/1,000 live births
• UK total 4.93 deaths/1,000 live births
• Iran total 36.93 deaths/1,000 live births
• China total 21.16 deaths/1,000 live births
• USA total 6.3 deaths/1,000 live births
• Luxembourg total 4.62 deaths/1,000 live births
• What does this not tell us

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Ethnic Groups of Mexico

• mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60, Amerindian or
  predominantly Amerindian 30, white 9, other 1

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Religion in Mexico

• Roman Catholic 76.5, Protestant 6.3
  (Pentecostal 1.4, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.1,
  other 3.8), other 0.3, unspecified 13.8, none
  3.1 (2000 census)

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Literacy

• Mexico total population 91
• Russia total population 99.4
• China total population 90.9
• Nigeria total population 68
• Iran total population 77
• UK total population 99
• USA total population 99
• My Niece 0
• What variables might affect the notion of
  literacy?

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GDP PPP Per Capita

• Mexico - 12,800 (2007 est.)
• USA - 45,800 (2007 est.)
• Russia - 14,700 (2007 est.)
• Nigeria - 2,000 (2007 est.)
• Iran 10,600 (2007 est.)
• China - 5,300 (2007 est.)

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PPP of GDP for the countries of the world (2003).
The US is the base country, so it is 100. The
highest index value, for Bermuda, is 154, so the
same goods are 54 more expensive in Bermuda than
in the United States.