Mexican American Culture

As we look around the world, many people wonder why it is important to understand other cultures and countries. Often people do not think much further than outside of the town that they live in. They only hear about other countries with the media or what their history classes are teaching. It is important to get past this mindset and look around the world to see how each country on this earth affects one another. In this ever-expanding world, the human population is only growing larger. As we are constantly learning from the past, this shrinking of the world often leads to conflict. We are also learning that understanding our neighbors and their culture helps us reduce or completely avoid conflict. In this paper, I am going to write …show more content…
It is located in Western South America, bordered by Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Chile and faces the Pacific Ocean. It is fairly small only covering roughly 500,000 square miles. For its size it has vast topographic features ranging from deserts, tropical rainforest and the mountain range. These areas make up three categories called the Costa, Sierra, and Selva. The Costa region is a harsh environment to live in. It is comprised of desert lands and has very rocky and sandy terrain. The Sierra makes up the Andes Mountains, these spread from central to southern Peru. These are the Highlands and contain many of the Earths large mountains. This area also holds the ColcaCanyons, which are twice the depth of the Grand Canyon (VirtualPeru.Net). Located on the east side of the country and Andes Mountain range is the Selva region. Selva contains the foothills of the Amazon basin and contains “60%” (VirtualPeru.Net) of the land area of Peru. This region contains the Amazon River and many untouched areas of the rainforest. According to VirtualPeru.Net, “Selva is a region where only few people live. There are some small cities, with the only exceptions the relatively big city Iquitos, in the district of Loreto, and Pucallpa in the Ucayali district” (VirtualPeru.Net, 2015).The diversity in Peru’s landscape leads to many challenges for the people of Peru and causes vast gaps in their classes of …show more content…
The “upper class makes up the minority of the overall population this class makes up a very small portion, three percent, of the population that mainly live in the city of Lima” (amautaspanish.com). The middle class is categorized based off of “jobs and salaries” (Peru-Culture and Society, 2015) of the people. This class it is a little over half of Peru’s population. The lower class is made up of the workers and “Campensinos” (Peru-Culture and Society, 2015) these people are also known as peasants or farmers. They are located in cities that are called “Pueblo Jovenes or Shanty Towns” (Peru-Culture and Society, 2015). The Campensinos stay in the Andean Communities and place a higher emphasis on Culture and the Incan Religion. Although, there are many areas in Peru that currently live in modern times there are still remote communities that house tribes and live untouched from the outside world. The people that live in southern Peru typically are bilingual, speaking Spanish and their native language. The more northern regions predominantly speak

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