| LEARN MORE ABOUT MEXICO
Perhaps you’re preparing for a trip, researching a paper, or learning
about
Mexico in your classroom. Perhaps you live in Mexico. Perhaps you just
want to know more.
National Geographic’s Geography Education Program encourages you to
learn
all you can about the people and places we visit—online, on our
television
programs, and in the pages of our books and magazines.
You can begin by reviewing the four Mexican Journeys here on our web site.
(Click the “Back” key in your browser to return to this screen
when finished.)
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Like Los Angeles, Mexico City is hemmed in by
natural barriers. Both have swelling populations and oppressive air
pollution. Are the two cities fundamentally alike? Does
Mexico City resemble any other metropolis
that you have visited?
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Low-wage labor lures United States manufacturers
south, while economic prosperity boosts immigration—legal or
otherwise—to the north. Investigate the consequences of these surging tides along
the border at
Tijuana.
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Traditions persist in México Profundo,
where
charros, or cowboys, rope cattle as their forebears did and the
Day of the Dead occasions ceremony and celebration. Explore Mexico’s past
where it lives on, in the Heartland.
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Scarce fertile soil. Ancestral land claims. Cries for
reform. Tumult and insurrection. Are the circumstances which led to armed
rebellion in Chiapas unique?
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| You can delve into the Bibliography, attend lectures at National
Geographic Headquarters, or visit other Web Sites
to learn more about Mexico.
Teachers and parents, check out our Classroom
Ideas. |
