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travels
in Spain and elsewhere: “The past of a place survives in its poor.”
Cuisine is culture,
indigenous people, The Major Moments of Indigenism in Mexico.
“The northern border is a wound that pains all Mexicans.”
As for the indignity of the interrogation, “Every
human being should experience it at least once, so as to know wha...
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A few days after arriving in this colonial town in a high valley, justly celebrated for its beauty and its traditions, I was reminded again of how “the past of a place survives in its poor”—how the poor tend to keep their cultural identity intact. They depend on its compass and continuity and its pleasures for their self-esteem, while the rising classes and the rich tend to rid themselves of their old traditions, except in a showy or ritualized way, because they became wealthy by resisting them and breaking rules. Oaxaca, with its powerful and visible identity and its living culture, was
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