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THREE VERY DIFFERENT CULTURES: CHINESE, MEXICAN AND ITALIAN

The culture of Mexico is actually a set of cultures. In what has been given in calling the Mexican

thing they influence cultural elements of the most diverse natures: already be the modern ones,

the former ones, the recyclings. The form of life in Mexico includes many aspects of the pre-

Hispanic peoples and of the colonial period. Other

important aspects of his culture, are the values, the familiar

unit, the respect, I work hard and the solidarity of the

community. Mexico has changed rapidly during the 19th

century In several forms, the contemporary life in the cities,

has managed to be very similar to that of the cities in the

United States and Europe. Nevertheless, the majority of the Mexican peoples follow the form of 

life of his forbears.

For your part the culture of China is one of the most ancient and complex cultures of the world.

The zone, in which this culture is dominant, includes a wide geographical region with big variations

in the customs and traditions between peoples, cities or

provinces. Some of the exponents of the Chinese culture are his

mythology, his philosophy, his music and his art. He adopted

many culture of his surroundings as the Buddhism of the India,

giving origin to the Buddhism chán. China was a cradle of two

important philosophical currents, the Confucianism and the

Taoism. Whereas the culture of Italy is the set of the cultural manifestations produced in Italian

territory. Italy is recognized by his art, his culture and his most

numerous monuments, between them the tower of Pisa and

the Roman Coliseum; ; As well as for his gastronomy (Italian

famous plates are the pizza and the pasta), his wine, his way of 

life, his painting, his design, cinema, theatre, literature and

music, especially, the opera. Important part of these three

cultures is his gastronomy.

The gastronomy of Mexico is characterized by his great variety of saucers and recipes, as well as by

the complexity of his production. In addition it is

recognized by his strong and sophisticated flavors by great

flavoring. The tortilla forms a part of the majority of the

saucers in the Mexican food, is a substitute of the bread who is

in use in other countries. The typical Mexican saucers possess

between his principal characteristic a piquant flavor in

great quantity, for what it might be unbearable for some

people.

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The Chinese kitchen is intimately related not only to the company, but also to the philosophy and

the Chinese medicine. It distinguishes between I fell down (cooked

vegetables and for extension everything what accompanies the cereals)

and the cereals in yes, the fan. The food yin (fem inine) is tender and

rich food in water as the fruits and the vegetables, and has a refreshing

effect. The food yang (masculine) includes the fried, spicy plates and

based on meats, and serves to warm. If all food has to harmonize the

flavors, them shown restraint small stones have also that to look for a

balance between the cold thing and the warm thing, the colors and the

consistency of the diverse food. For it the culinary Chinese technologies are numerous and

particularly varied.

The food of Italy is extremely varied, his kitchen reflects the cultural variety of his regions as well

as the diversity of his history. The Italian kitchen, specially

that of the peninsular and insular regions (center and south

of the country), is included inside the Mediterraneangastronomy called and is imitated and practiced in the

whole world. It is very common that it is known to the

gastronomy of Italy by his more famous plates, as the pizza,

the pasta and the coffee, but the certain thing is that it is a

kitchen where there coexist the an abundant smells and the flavors of the Mediterranean one. It is

a question of a kitchen with strong traditional character, very sectorizada for regions and inheritor

of long traditions that it has could perpetuate ancient recipes as the pizza, Neapolitan excellent

plate, or the polenta.