Culture difference from Yucatan vs united states?

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Culture difference from Yucatan vs united states?

Answer 1

I spent three days at the home of Dona Maria in the village of Tinum, not far from Valladolid.  She was the wealthiest woman in Tinum.  She had a concrete house with a tile roof.  She had a refrigerator and sold Cokes to the villages from it.  The village had about 200 people (mostly all farmers), but there were some shops selling things farmers need (rope, tools, etc.).  Dona Maria had five chickens and one turkey, and they would occaisionally walk into the kitchen, because there were no doors on the front or the back of the house.  Dona Maria had a propane fired stove, but she did some of the cooking in the backyard on a round peice of metal set on three rocks over a wood fire.

Other houses in the village were make of sticks, with mud forced between the sticks and built up to a thickness of six to eight inches.  Longer branches were cut to support the palm leaf roof.  Cooking was all done outside.

But that's village life.  If you go to Merida or Cancun, you'll find rich people who are accustomed to shopping at Walmart and department stores.  And they live in houses and apartments not too much different from what you live in.

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