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[TeresaLopez]

Was having an interesting discussion with one of my classes about the things that people love/hate about different countries, things they think are better, etc., and we drifted to what foreigners love about Mexico. Not the big things that most people usually say, like the food, the people, etc, but the little everyday things that delight you. I had a few, but they were curious about what others thought, so thought I would ask here. One of mine that they thought was strange but interesting what they fact that I don't have to wear pantyhose, even when otherwise pretty dressed up. I have an almost psychotic hatred of pantyhose, so that is a big, BIG everyday thing for me. Another thing I love is all the Metro stations that have artifacts, I especially love the dog head in the Bellas Artes station, that something so ancient is just there for everyone to look at. What else? I am hoping to have a list for them on Monday.

[Isla Guapa]

I like the fact that you can say "Buenos d�as", etc. to complete strangers you may pass on the street, and they won't think you're weird .

[Phil_K]

Egotistical I know, but I love it when a person of obviously advanced age (I'm a young-looking 47) addresses me as "Se�or". (I hate "joven", especially from someone younger, even though I've been assured many times that it's respectful - I can't get my head round that).

[joeyb]

Tthe resilience and improvisational manner of a people who with each day have to make do with less, and the way that this reality is manifested in the ubiquitousness and irrepressible nature of the entrepreneurial spirit....the �guerilla� retailers and singing blindmen on the metro, the cycling pie sellers in colonia Roma, the indigenous handicraft vendors that sprout up like mushrooms at the edges of large outdoor events....there�s so much more, but I�ve run out of big words.

[geaaronson]

The folklorico dancers, people not concerned about eating between meals or eating while walking on the street, pretty women showing cleavage, sales clerks not particularly concerned if you short change them a peso or two rather than changing a large note.....not being approached by evangelists....it goes on and on.

[Isla Guapa]

So, G, what about not-so-pretty women showing cleavage ......

[donato]

Maybe the novelty will wear off as I've only been in Mexico five days, but harmonipan street people! And of course the architecture...

[Phil_K]

[Phil_K]

but on a more positive note...

Continuing geaaronson's theme, women in Mexico do seem to be more in touch with their femininity than back in the Old Country - despite the attentions of lecherous, macho men. Or maybe because of it!

[Guy Courchesne]

Mexico, where tarty lives on.

Beyond the food, the people, the weather and such, the sounds of Mexico are a joy to me. The tamale vendor with that famous scratchy recording...hay tamales...

The whistle of the knife sharpening guy on his bike. The bakery vendor's characteristic honky horn. Even that really loud camote oven whistle, always late at night. Comforting, predictable sounds that tells me all is well in the neighborhood.

Game day shouts of GOOOOOOLLLLLL piercing the Sunday quiet tells me the score of the big game. Ding a ling a ling tells me I need to take the garbage out to the approaching truck.

The novelty wears off, but the romance never will.

[Isla Guapa]

[joeyb]

[sweeney66]

I miss, strangely enough, the micro & the anarchy. Tamales I can get from a friend on 145th. Oh! and 10 peso movies. And "el mercado" in general.

[Isla Guapa]

[geaaronson]

MO 39

When facing cleavage, who remembers face to face?