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| Hispanic culture is one of the three cultures that live side by side in New Mexico - the other two are Native American and Anglo. See History in this site for a link to sites that tell how Spaniards coming up from Mexico conquered and called this area Nuevo Mexico after having been fought off once. Then Spain lost the area to the USA and NM became part of Texas and then in 1912 it became a state on its own. Throughout New Mexico there are Spanish land grants which have been deeded down through the generations to current family members and are considered legal and binding. Many of these lands have been broken up and are being sold to newcomers to the state but some remain and it is common for an Hispanic person who comes of age to inherit land atuomatically or to be allowed to live on it before the death of the Senior family member in whose name the property resides. This is one of the reasons you will see many Hispanic offspring stay at home or return to their homesteads after getting educated - because they have land here AND family which is very important even to contemporary Hispanics. All throughout New Mexico are seen central plazas, which we now call "Old Town" in each city, old churches built by the friars who came North with the use of Native American labor, and everywhere is the Spanish Colonial or adobe architecture they brought with them. The adobe type of building is common to Spaniards and to the SW pueblos. A prime example of a very old adobe structure still in use is the Taos Pueblo which has been occupied for at least 1000 years. The Spanish language is still spoken by a great percentage of Hispanics in New Mexico along with, usually, English. It is an idiomatic Spanish rather than formal Castillian. The most often used word among Hispanic speaking people, and even Anglos now, is "Bueno," which roughly translated means, "That's good" and "OK". This word is how most conversations are ended and thus a positive note is achieved. |
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