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Mariachi music is a more recent export from central Mexico that is not native of New Mexico, but has been embraced by local musicians, some with older New Mexico roots, some with more recent roots from Mexico. I don't think these ladies are plotting to overtake our culture (but it might be fun if they did):
While northern New Mexican Hispanic culture does have Spanish roots, it it also a borderland culture that has existed for centuries on the margins of New Spain/Mexico and other cultures (first the Comanches, Apaches and other nomadic tribes, later the United States). It is distinct in many ways (cuisine, language, art), but has also always participated in the broader Mexican/Hispano culture of the borderlands. Today New Mexico is much less isolated and thus more open to immigration from elsewhere (Mexico as well as the rest of the United States), but these new arrivals and the cultural changes they bring are accommodated into the whole much as they have been for centuries. As for "traditional" northern Hispano society, it's always been a rural culture, not an urban one, and continues to be strongest in the small villages throughout the state where families can trace their roots back to the 18th century or earlier. To the extent that anything has been "lost" over the last century, those losses are due to broader changes in New Mexican society (urbanization/suburbanization, less isolation through better roads, TV, etc., the end of village-level subsistence farming, the arrival of a cash-based economy) that have had an impact on rural life everywhere in the US.
So proud that no one has taken the bait on this thread. I love New Mexico.
ok, im not sure why you guys say im baiting you. i know next to nothing about new mexico, so if i unintentionally said something provocative, tell me what it was exactly, and why it is
heh, well herein lies the problem about asking questions about things you know little about. i was under the mistaken impression that new mexico had some unique culture for the past 300-400 years that was a blend of spaniards and pueblos, and that it was a culture that had developed separately from mexico and the united states.
seems like im wrong
and apparently i must have hit a nerve cause people think im baiting them
sorry guys, really wasnt trying to start anything
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