Two ways to know our culture

Throughout the DBiM week, many things happened, and all of us had the chance to see what Mexico is like to day and some examples of big, global companies founded, run and headquartered in Mexico. And all of that is great, but this wouldn't be a complete cultural exchange if we leave our cultural roots unexplored. And we did this in two ways:

First, a visit to the Anthropology museum, which is renowed as one of the most beautiful, complete, engaging, rich and enriching places to visit if you want to know about mexican history.In fact, it possesses the largest collection of pre-Columbian art in the planet, which distributed amongst its 24 rooms, constitutes the biggest museum in Latin America.

But this place goes beyond showing pieces, they actualy have reproductions of the actual places: pre-hispanic buildings, archaeological zonez, etc. So instead of looking at the piece alone, you get to have a feel of how it fits in its cultural environment. And that's not to mention the fact the the place itself has a great architectural structure. Oddly enough, it's a historic museum capableof giving people a thrilling run for their money.

But a museum, no matter how great it may be, will remain a museum, so secondly, and as a way to close our week, we took our guests to kow one of the most ancient and fascinating civilizations on this side of the ocean, i'm talking about the enigmatic city of Teotihuacan. Teotuhuacan attracts over 2 million visitors every year, especially during the spring time,when a lot of people climb the Sun Piramid (the largest building of the zone) to "charge themselves" with the equinox sun. -it is believed that recieving the spring equinox sun in the top of the Sun Piramid gives you energy for the rest of the year.

Just to give you an idea, when the aztecs, by far the most commonly known mexican pre-hispanic civilization, arrived to what would become their homeland, they encountered with Teotihuacan's ruins, and came to believe this was a former city of their gods (Teotihuacan means "the place where the gods are born", according to some experts and "city of the gods" according to some others). And this was because of two reasons:

1. First, of course, because these were some really old ruins,but also
2. Because of the high level of complexity and precision that is evident in every house, temple and building, which they considered to be of a superior order, something only gods could do

We hope that these two activities have helped our fellow guests to gain a better understanding of the mexican culture as a whole, and let me just finish by stating that if Mexico manages to live up to its predecessor's glory, then our future will look really bright