¡Hola!
Soy una estudiante Britannica y me gustaría saber sus opiniones.
Hago una investigación en relación con el día de los muertos de Mexico, apropiación cultural y aprecio cultural.
¿Podrían escribir tus opiniones sobre los puntos siguientes en relación con este tema?
• Turismo en Mexico durante el día de muertos.
• Grandes marcas (como Disney, Barbie, Monster (mango loco) usando la iconografía de días de muertos con fines de lucro.
• La mezcla de Día de Muertos y el Halloween en Mexico y en otros países
• Tergiversación y estereotipos
Si tengan un momento para responder, ¡estaría eternamente agradecida!
¡Muchas gracias!
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There isn’t one in Chile, in fact sometimes Halloween isn’t even celebrated that much.
It’s a Mexican celebration with origins in native believes ( hence only celebrated by Mexicans and Mexican diaspora). It got syncretized with the all souls’ day, a Christian holiday.
I found it adorable when they write the post in spanish to practice on the language
1-. No idea, not mexican
2-. It’s bound to happen, i don’t see it like something bad when dead is just the other side of the coin of life.
3-. Not mexican so only know halloween and even then it’s not a popular thing, at most you will see halloween theme parties were you can dress up
4-. You should specify a little bit more on this question. Stereotypes will happen naturally and it’s usually a mix of truth and exageration. For example chinese people eat dog meat which is true but is in very specofic region and a practice that is getting rare and not general at all
Bueno en mi país hay un dia de muertos como dia feriado legal, aunque lo que la gente hace es ir al cementario o no hacer nada todo el día. No es realmente una festividad
In argentina day of the holy dead or dia de Los Santos difuntos is a personal holiday and isn’t like in Mexico it’s a somber reminder of mortality
Para responder la 3:
Acá en Ecuador celebramos el Día de los Difuntos con nuestras propias tradiciones (la colada morada y la guagua de pan), así que realmente no tenemos influencia del Día de Muertos mexicano.
Cada año más gente celebra Halloween, pero ambas festividades no se mezclan y Halloween no se celebra más allá de decoraciones y fiestas de disfraces (a veces niños pidiendo dulces si es que es un lugar seguro). Halloween para nosotros solo es una fiesta que precede al feriado largo de Difuntos-Independencia de Cuenca.
EDIT: como nota aparte, la verdadera/mayor fiesta de disfraces en Ecuador se celebra el Año Viejo (31 de diciembre)que incluyen hombres que se disfrazan de mujeres para pedir dinero en la calle.
It used to be only in Mexico but some aspects have started to filter in Colombia’s Halloween, which seems to grow every year. We are very into it.
Brazil on the other hand is not that big of a fan, although some halloween stuff has appeared here and there, but its very sporadic. Their celebration for costumes is Carnaval.
As for the questions, a mexican can answer it better, but from what I’ve seen, Mexicans do really not mind about the celebration gaining notoriety, they welcome it, besides extreme cases like Disney trying to trademark “Dia de los Muertos”, which of course, was insane.
We do have ocasional halloween parties in Brazil, especially in big cities. November 2nd here is called “finados”, and its not a day to party or celebrate. People tend to mourn here on finados.
1.- cool, everyone is welcome to visit. Things like the big parade in Mexico City (which I think is pretty cool) got big because tourists expected it post the Bond movie. Don’t overestimate its meaning either, for some of us it’s a day of quiet reflexion but not much more than that.
2.-enjoy. If we make money off of Christmas and Easter why not this one. Just don’t be an ass with copywriting it and excluding everyone else.
3.- Neither dia de muertos or halloween in their current form would exist if different traditions didn’t mix. they are almost the best examples of what happens when cultures meet. why stop now?
4.- Different parts of the country celebrate it in different ways or might not really at all. I grew up (and having asked my dad, grandparents about when they were children) with it just being a day when you went to cemetery, maybe brought flowers and said a quick prayer. Oh and sweet potato deserts were sold on the street. Literally nothing else, no alter no nothing.
That celebration is specific to Mexico, having it’s roots in first nations beliefs. Any celebration with similar overtones in the rest of Latin America has nothing to do with it. You’ll find día de los santos which has roots in Catholicism and often gets syncretiszed with African beliefs as they hid their religion in Christian iconology to hide it from the watchful eye of the priests and land owners. You may want to narrow your scope to the Mexican tradition or you may end up all over the place.
Halloween has nothing to do with religion nor social practices beyond it being a marketing created event to fill a shopping void before the holidays.
Bueno aquí lo celebramos aunque muy diferente a México. La gente va a visitar las tumbas, preparar fiambre , se vuelan barriletes y también construyen barriletes gigantes , se celebra la carrera de las ánimas y otras festividades locales.
Muchas ciudades han absorbido iconografia no tradicional o mas comercial para lucrar con el boom del dia de muertos, en algunos casos desplazan verdaderas tradiciones.
En teoria no hay problema de mi parte excepto le dan un conocimiento incorrecto del dia al mundo, desde decirle “dia de los muertos”, aglutinarlo como algo hispanic/latino debido a la maximización de clientes o el simple hecho de poner un mariachi calavaera en todos lados.
Es normal qie se mezclen debido a que el publico principal son niños, si tu escuela tiene un evento esos dias usualmente hay un altar y todos estan en disfraces. “Protestar” halloween ya es algo del pasado.