One wonders whether food and gifts translate into status more or less effectively than whatever they might buy to that end in “Western” society would. Scare quotes because most of Mexico isn’t much more or less Western than the US, all things considered.
Yeah, the scare quotes are because I dislike the use of “Western” to mean English-speaking cultures rather than the Greek-Latin-Arabic influenced cultures.
One wonders whether food and gifts translate into status more or less effectively than whatever they might buy to that end in “Western” society would. Scare quotes because most of Mexico isn’t much more or less Western than the US, all things considered.
Yeah, the scare quotes are because I dislike the use of “Western” to mean English-speaking cultures rather than the Greek-Latin-Arabic influenced cultures.