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Info created, uploaded and nominated by -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 18:08, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Support a little bit of humorous culture. -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 18:08, 2 February 2011 (UTC)- Support Good techically, though I don´t get the context.--Snaevar (talk) 14:08, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Comment Mexico is a land of colors, contrasts, paradoxes, etc. Religion is a major element of Mexican culture, and so is chaos, and breaking of the rules among other things. If you study Mexican culture, you inevitably come upon the term "sincretismo", which is a term that translates into the modification and adaptation of two belief systems merged into one. This comes from the merging of two cultures, Mexican and European. In this particular case, one side of the image promotes drinking, smoking and whatever behaviour is associated with alchohol and tobacco, being carried out by a monkey, which in turn personifies among other things reckless or funny human behaviour, and the other part of the image depicts religious figures, the Virgin of Guadalupe, a powerful icon in Mexico´s religion, venerated before God! who in turn represents whatever religious values represent, but associated with opposite values of the monkey... Anyway, so we have monkey, drinking, smoking on one side, then we have the Virgin and other religious icons on the other, and then we have the consumer-like merchandising of the icon, and on top of that we have the colorful artistic expressions of the icons. If anything, this picture is just a very, very small window into cultural practices. That is the context. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 15:06, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- Do you mean Native American and European? -- IdLoveOne (talk) 08:12, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
- Support The colors are excellent! --TFCforever (talk) 05:13, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
- Support and Bravo for explanation --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 16:09, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
- Support Ethnologically interesting, well executed and funny. But my best reason is : I like it.--Jebulon (talk) 22:50, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
- Support Technical quality, high educational value, and funny too. Steven Walling 20:14, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- Support Ggia (talk) 23:40, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
- Support --Cayambe (talk) 20:04, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
- Support Yann (talk) 05:49, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
- Support -- IdLoveOne (talk) 08:12, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
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