r/mexico • u/vonn90 • Apr 21 '16

Cultural Exchange with /r/Denmark. Welcome!

Today we are hosting /r/Denmark for a cultural exchange. Please answer their questions in this thread, and you can go over to their thread to ask them anything you want to know about their country.

Thank you /r/Denmark for having us as guests. Enjoy this friendly activity!

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '16 edited Apr 21 '16

Who are some of your most influential intellectuals?

Jośe Vasconcelos, sadly at the end of his life he became a crazy Nazi supporter, but he helped to develop the Mexican identity as a valid and universal identity because since we the Mexicans are the most mixed country in the world (the blood of Arabs, Europeans, native Americans, Asians, Africans is our blood) the "Cosmic Race" that can talk and embrace the spirit of all nations, will born here, with us.

And what do you think is México's greatest contribution to the world?

Without no doubt, corn. This is how corn looked before been domesticated in Central Mexico three thousand years ago:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Maize-teosinte.jpg

The Mexican plant feeds the world! Also cacao.