Leaders in the armed forces should have an understanding and awareness of a countries culture, agriculture, weather, history, government, and influences on other countries. The understanding of this gives leaders a general information about a region. Culture is defined as the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also: the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time (Merriam-Webster, 2018).
The five characteristics of a culture are culture is shared, social, transmitted through learning, dependent upon language, cumulative, gratifying to participate in, dynamic and variable between …show more content…
Mexico’s most known holidays are Año Nuevo (New Year’s Day) January 1, Cinco de Mayo (Fifth of May) May 5, Día de la Independencia (Independence Day) September 16, Navidad (Christmas) December 25, along with the catholic church’s religious holidays. Mexico’s population is composed mostly of mestizos, who account for between one-half and two-thirds of the total of the population. Native American and European decent make up the remaining population.
Mexico is one of the three countries in North America. It is the southernmost country in North America. The majority of Mexico falls within the tropic of cancer giving it a tropical climate.
Mexico can be divided into nine major physiographic regions: Baja California, the Pacific Coastal Lowlands, the Mexican Plateau, the Sierra Madre Oriental, the Sierra Madre Occidental, the Cordillera Neo-Volcánica, the Gulf Coastal Plain, the Southern Highlands, and the Yucatán Peninsula. (Parkes, H. B., 2018) Mexico is on the tectonic plat called “the ring of fire” that can cause earthquakes on occasion. Mexico has an active volcano Popocatepetl (Nahuatl: “smoking …show more content…
The Aztecs fought with the Spanish conquistadors from 1519 to 1522. Mexico was under the control of Spain until 1821 when it won independence. The next major war that Mexico fought was with the United States of America from 1835 to 1836. Most notable battles where the battle of the Alamo and the battle of San Jacinto. Mexico then fought the United States of America in the Mexican-American war from 1846 to 1848. The loss of the Mexican-American war resulted in the establishment of Mexico’s northern border with the United States that is still in place to this day. It had a second civil war from 1857 to 1860 that forced the separation of church and state in Mexico. France invaded Mexico to establish a French rule from 1861 to 1867. France was unable to control an unruly Mexico and left in 1867 leaving Mexico to be self-governed. It had a third civil war starting in 1910 until 1920. Then a fourth civil war was fought over religion in 1926 and ended in 1929.The last significant military conflict that Mexico had a part in was world war two.
Mexico is a federal republic with 31 states and federal district. It has a popularly elected president serves six years. It also has a legislative branch divided into an upper house (the Senate) and lower house (Chamber of Deputies) with six-year