http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/mexican Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:35:27 -0400 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:35:27 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/663/the-mexican-american-health-paradox-the-collective-influence-of-sociocultural-factors-on-hispanic-health-outcomes By Merit P. George - According to recent statistics published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011, Hispanics in the United States tend to outlive non-Hispanic whites by almost three years. Specifically, the life expectancy at birth for Hispanic Americans is around 81 years, while non-Hispanic whites on average live to be around 78 years of age. These facts and figures do not represent an isolated phenomenon limited to the recent past; in fact, these distinctive trends in life expectancy and mortality have occupied researchers since 1986, when Dr. Kyriakos Markides and his colleagues... Wed, 20 Nov 2013 04:21 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/663/the-mexican-american-health-paradox-the-collective-influence-of-sociocultural-factors-on-hispanic-health-outcomes http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/27/yo-soy-yo-y-mi-circunstancia-the-socioeconomic-origins-of-machismo-and-the-macho By Scott Berghegger - The simultaneous allure and repulsion of Mexican machismo belies its ambiguous nature as an identifying characteristic of the nation itself and as a phenomenon that some claim is unique to Mexico and others say is endemic throughout patriarchal societies worldwide. Macho behavior is defined as “vulgar language, sadistic insults, the utter degradation of women” (Peña 1991: 31), but a macho can also refer to “a real man, good drinker, lover, singer, fighter, brave and willing to defend what he believes in” (Stevens 1965: 849) and as a man who is “fuerte, feo... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:21 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/27/yo-soy-yo-y-mi-circunstancia-the-socioeconomic-origins-of-machismo-and-the-macho http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/21/machismo-and-the-reaction-formation-of-the-mexican-man By Scott Berghegger - Américo Paredes, in his 1971 article “The United States, Mexico, and Machismo” (Marcy Steen, trans.), defines the macho as “the superman of the multitude,” a “national type” by which Mexico, as a nation, is often classified (Paredes 215). Through this decidedly folklorist definition, Paredes makes machismo out to be an aspiration handed down from generation to generation of Mexicans in the laments of songs “addressed to a woman who has gone away with another man ‘who is no doubt more of a man than I am’” (215-216). There is no... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:09 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/21/machismo-and-the-reaction-formation-of-the-mexican-man http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1296/country-of-contradictions-mexicos-transition-to-modernity By Lauren Herget - A country’s transition from Cold War-era third-world dependence into competitive, global autonomy is often a difficult and complicated process. Like many other developing nations today, Mexico is meeting its fair share of stumbling blocks on its way to democracy. Mexico’s fissured and conflicted present is thanks to a checkered past, rife with one-party politics and ethically dubious environmental policies. Although inching towards free-market capitalist democracy, Mexico still faces many struggles. But hope still remains for Mexico on the whole: Mexico’s recently elected president... Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1296/country-of-contradictions-mexicos-transition-to-modernity