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Behave? What has that do do with what people look like:
People in Spain have almost exactly twice as much per capita purchasing power, and live a much more more affluent lifestyle. Spain has twice as many cars per capita as Mexico.
Also, in Mexico, the Catholic church is practically illegal. The church is not allowed to own any property, and cannot operate any schools, or have any influence in education..
A large part of Mexico's population lives in mountains or jungles, which are nearly absent in Spain.
Mexicans play baseball. Mexico has its own indigenous styles of music, which dominate the music scene. Music from Spain is rarely heard in Mexico, and vice versa. Same for TV shows, and nowadays, even movies.
Mexicans have no borders they can freely cross, and cannot wander freely all over the continent., so theit culture is much more isolated. Mexicans all speak a uniform dialect of Spanish, and can easily be understood everywhere in Mexico and in Latin America.. .
Mexico reminds a lot to Spain 50 years ago. People above certain age might feel more at home in certain areas of Mexico than in modern Spain. Language is older, reminds 16th century.
Those women in Mexican telenovelas don't exist in Spanish media.Granted they look Northern Spanish...but far more luscious, stunning.More like actresses in españoladas..stunning women and no cod fish.
Jungles only exist in Southern part of Mexico and deserts only in Northern Mexico....Central Mexico is actual temperate or mild (my family came from Jalisco). Some of the posters here have a weird idea of Mexico (just like the Americans arguing with me that I am not actually mestizo Mexican-American because I do not look Amerindian enough...even though mestizo means mix).....
But anyway, the thread is comparing two countries in different continents! The language is somewhat the same but overtime they use different words for certain things and slangs. And Spanish (like other Europeans) are not likely to talk to strangers they just met.
I have been to Mexico also and a lot could also easily be Spanish, Portuguese, Sicilian, Maltese, Greek and Cypriot.
Some could even be MENA and South Asian.
I am Mexican-American, and I can tell you that yes your are right in regards to Mexicans looking a lot like the Southern Europeans or even South Asians. But thats just some. Is usually the case with Mexicans from Western and Northern Mexico, particularly from Jalisco or from the states up North in Sonora or Nuevo Leon. as they usually tend to have more European ancestry. Central and Southern Mexicans in average don't look Spanish or Greek, or from anywhere in Southern Europe, or even South Asian at all... As they have a very Native American appearance.
Ximena Navarrete is a good example of the average tapatia you will usually see in Guadalajara or in Los Altos de Jalisco region and she does resemble more someone from the Iberian Peninsula as she has predominantly European facial features.
Versus someone from Central or Southern Mexico, as this is the kind you usually see here in the US that migrate from Mexico (Nothing against this people, as they are usually very humble, friendly and hard working people. Many of my good friends look like this!)
They follow the script just like every other "actor".
WTF kind of question is that?
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