Exotic Mexico (1942)
James A. FitzPatrick: Self - Narrator
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James A. FitzPatrick : Almost from childhood, the women of Tehuantepec assume all of the domestic responsibilities, and most of the duties outside the home, so that the social status of the community resembles that of a matriarchy. In spite of their assumption of masculine prerogatives, however, they have retained an unusual degree of feminine charm, and their womanlike appreciation for the beautiful manifests itself particularly in their self-embroidered costumes.
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James A. FitzPatrick : And so the dance goes on in Oaxaca, its untiring and unchanging tempo symbolizing, as it were, the spirit of the Indians who contribute so much to the color and mysticism of exotic Mexico.
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James A. FitzPatrick : In the southern part of Mexico, there is a narrow strip of land known as the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which is crossed by a branch of the national railways of Mexico, extending itself from Puerto México to Salina Cruz, a distance of about a hundred and ninety miles. Prior to the opening of the Panama Canal, this railway played a most important part in transportation between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, the route being twelve hundred and fifty miles shorter than the Panama Canal route between New York and San Francisco.
