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What you are about to read
is interesting information about Mexico that we absolutely guarantee will
convince you to visit.
Mexico is located in North
America and is bordered by the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S., and the Pacific
Ocean. The major land forms are mountains and deserts. Mexico is 756,066
square miles in area. The climate is hot as a tropical rain forest. Mexico
has some large mountains. Their average height is about 7,000 feet.
Mexico is a democratic
country like the United States. Mexico became a country in 1821.
The President of Mexico is Earnest Zedillo. Mexico participated in
The War of Independence, the Mexican American War, and the 1910-1920 Mexican
Revolutionary War.
Major export products
of Mexico are oil, machinery, and chemical products. Major import
products of Mexico are food, beverages, printing equipment, and machinery.
Some natural resources are oil, trees, gold, silver, and sometimes diamonds.
Mexico's currency is called the peso. Jobs are hard to come by in Mexico.
It has high unemployment. Selling lottery tickets and shining shoes are
ways that a lot of young workers survive when they're unemployed.
Right now Mexico has a
population of 88,335,001. Mexico's people are 60% Mestino, 9% European
and 29% Native American. More then 90% of people in Mexico are Catholic
and the rest are either Protestant or Jewish. Most people in Mexico
speak Spanish and some occasionally speak English.
Family homes usually have
one or two kids, a mother and a father (if he is not in the army).
They eat corn, beef, goats, pigs, and vegetables that we eat in the U.S.
In Mexico everyone up
to the age of 15 has to go to school. All children, have to attend
at least eight years of primary (elementary) school and three years of
secondary (high) school . About 90% of kids today attend primary
and 65% of kids today attend secondary school. Two kids have to share one
desk and textbooks, as there are very few textbooks in Mexico.
Mexican schools believe that the best subjects for kids to learn are reading,
writing and arithmetic.
In their free time people
play video games in arcades and gamble. Mexicans like to play physical
contact sports like rugby and soccer. There aren't many famous musicians
in Mexico, but there are some very famous bands. There are many different
types of entertainment like bull fighting shows, holiday parades and festivals.
Some popular TV shows that Mexicans watch are Just Shoot Me, Third Rock
from the Sun and The Simpsons. Most of their popular TV shows are American
imports.
There it is. The
most fantastic facts about Mexico.
Now you know how exciting Mexico
is, so go down and have the vacation of your life.
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