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      <image:title>Features - Mexican kids are going outside, and you can thank TikTok for it</image:title>
      <image:caption>The “farming” part comes from gaming, where players repeatedly do something to accumulate resources, experience, or points. So, young people are essentially “farming” imaginary social points for being cool. In an aura battle, that can involve a pose, a dance, a gesture, a facial expression, a physical skill, or some reference to internet culture that the audience understands. The crowd reacts, and someone is judged to have more aura than the other person. It’s silly, but it’s also completely understandable. Because teenagers trying to look cool is hardly a new phenomenon. We did it. We just didn’t call it “aura farming.” We had our clothes, our music, our hairstyles, our cars, our sports, our parties, and the places where we gathered. We knew which jeans were cool, which bands mattered, and which places were worth being seen in. We spent hours trying to impress one another. The difference is that our social lives didn’t come with an algorithm and the possibility of an audience of millions. I think my generation (X, if you’re wondering) sometimes gets a little unfair with the one coming after us. We look at young people spending time online and say they need to get outside. Go meet people. Have a conversation. Enjoy the fresh air. Get off your phone. And then, when they use the internet to find people who share their interests and organize an event where they can actually meet those people, we laugh at what they’re doing. What kind of message does that send? The world they’re growing up in isn’t the world we grew up in. Entertainment costs more. Eating out costs more. Transportation costs more. Even finding somewhere to spend an afternoon can require money that a teenager simply doesn’t have.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Different cities. Different organizers. Same basic idea. Get together. There’s something particularly lovely, and particularly apt, about that happening in Mexico. Because the places where these kids are gathering are in city plazas. Mexico has been building social spaces like these for generations. The plaza has always been somewhere you go to be around other people. You go there to meet friends, listen to music, watch what’s happening, flirt a little, gossip a lot, let the kids run around, sit and talk, eat something and, yes, be seen. Long before anyone had a smartphone, generations of young Mexicans were heading to the plaza because that was where everyone else was. You went because your friends were there. You went because you might bump into someone you wanted to see. You went because something was happening. And sometimes you went simply because there was nowhere else you needed to be. The technology’s changed, but the reason hasn’t. These kids have essentially found their way to the same damn plaza via TikTok, and I love that. For all the talk about technology changing the way young people socialize, there’s something almost wonderfully traditional about what’s happening here. The internet may be the thing that tells them where to go, but once they get there, they’re doing something humans have been doing in Mexican plazas for generations. They’re gathering. They’re watching each other. They’re laughing and showing off and making friends, and figuring out who they are in relation to everyone else. They’re doing it because they’re teenagers in 2026, and apparently everything must be documented.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Your mother has no wrinkles, I say to my new boyfriend’s brother, who sits in the driver seat while I sit in the backseat, as my new boyfriend exits the car and walks his mother to her door. “Ayyy, that’s because she got rid of them,” he responds.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Features - The ache of what once was: Saudade, loss, and ‘Ya no estoy aquí’</image:title>
      <image:caption>What first appears excessive and cheap begins to feel distinctive, deeply intentional, and emblematic of a culture entirely their own.Ulises has been part of Kolombia culture for most of his life, but, as bad luck would have it, he is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to abandon the world he belongs to.. Monterrey, like other parts of Mexico, was deeply affected by the war on drugs launched under former president Felipe Calderón, which unleashed devastating waves of violence in already vulnerable communities. After receiving death threats, Ulises flees Mexico for New York City, where he struggles to build a life in a place that leaves him profoundly disoriented and untethered. Losing the people, place, and specific moment in time that are central to Ulises’s life and identity devastates him. He moves differently in New York City. He walks with a heaviness of heart and a faraway look in his eyes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The film also stirred something open in me. I’ve always thought of nostalgia as a feature of my personality, but only as I’ve gotten older have I begun to wonder whether it has an origin. I left Durango for Chicago at 12, an age when childhood is receding but the teenage years—and seemingly the rest of your life—still stretch ahead of you. I gained a great deal by moving to the U.S. with my family, but Ya no estoy aquí helped me recognize that leaving also came with losses I did not fully understand at the time. I still remember returning to Santa Rosa only six months later and feeling strangely disoriented. Everything and everyone seemed different, even though, in many ways, almost nothing had changed.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When someone keeps their entranceway tidy, they’re signaling they’re present. They’re alert to the street’s small emergencies, ready to exchange news or lend a cup of sugar. There’s a moral grammar in these gestures.  The neat line of swept dust is a modest declaration. We will not let disorder settle here without reply. It’s a ritual of regard for public space that’s neither bureaucratic nor institutional. It’s local, hands‑on stewardship.  In an environment where infrastructure may be intermittent and where municipal services aren’t always prompt, pride of place becomes a civic act executed with brooms and water jugs.  People take responsibility for the bits of the commons that intersect with their lives, and in doing so they protect one another. The water‑sprinkling itself carries particular meaning.  In a region of wind and sun, a little water calms the day. It lifts dust from the soles of infants and from the lashes of elders, and it keeps the air bearable in the mornings and evenings.  When a woman walks the lane with a plastic can and mists the pavement, she’s performing a small mercy. For the stray animals, for the neighbors with breathing troubles, for the children who’ll run without raising clouds. It’s both practical and generous. And you see the reciprocity. A neighbor who sweeps will also fetch medicine or hold a ladder when a roof needs repair. Neighbors mend crooked gates, paint peeling shutters, share buckets to wash a car or to clean windblown sand from a porch.  Someone will notice if a potted plant is drooping and pass along a cutting. Someone else will bring a bowl of caldo to a household that is nursing a fever.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The time someone spends patching a gutter, the hour devoted to retying a net, the willingness to lend a ladder. When public services lag, neighbors compensate. When a storm topples a tree, it’s the street that mobilizes, piling limbs at the curb and sharing the labor. The practice of pride of place is thus also a practice of resilience. It makes a place able to receive trouble and to respond. I’ve come to understand these rituals as a form of citizenship. Like an everyday civicness that isn’t registered in vote counts or municipal budgets, but is felt in the steadiness of a swept path. It is, perhaps, the most honest kind of patriotism. Not the loud claim of flags and slogans but the quieter, daily defense of a good place to live.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Features - A place worth staying: The story of the first Mexicans</image:title>
      <image:caption>Even limited farming brought an increase in the population, and a few of the small villages scattered across Mexico started to expand into larger communities. Around 3,500 years ago, people living in the village of Paso de la Amada, on the Pacific coast of Chiapas, constructed a ball court, where men competed in a prototype of the game the Spaniards would witness when they finally reached these shores. Deep in the Oaxaca Valley, one village grew into a regional center, where the population labored on a communal building known as the "men's house." Humans had already found their way up to the high plateau where Mexico City now stands, and here too the nomadic lifestyle gave way to farming. The climate at 2,000 meters was cold, and many areas lacked adequate water, but humans were drawn toward one central valley, a hundred kilometers long, sixty kilometers wide, that was blessed with lakes and marshes. Where there is water, there will be deer, birds, and edible plants, and where there is water and good volcanic soil, people can overcome almost any other problem and grow crops.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>We can only guess whom these portraits represented, though the scale of them, and the individuality of the faces, points to rulers. The claim that their features are evidence of ancient sea links with Africa — first made in the nineteenth century, by the man who came across the earliest of the heads — has proved remarkably durable, but nothing supports it. The basalt is local. The style belongs to an unbroken Mexican tradition. No African object or burial has been found at an Olmec site, and the faces fall within the range of features still common along this coast. A more legitimate debate centers on whether the "helmets" had a military purpose, and are therefore evidence that, despite an apparent lack of weapons, this was an aggressive society. Alternatively, they might have been ceremonial, or even protection for players taking part in the ritual ball games. What is undisputed is that work on this scale must have been planned and directed, perhaps by a priestly elite. Yet, the human grip on the land was flimsy. There were only around a thousand people at Paso de la Amada, while the entire Oaxaca Valley, 40 kilometers from northwest to southeast, supported a population of perhaps two thousand. Even San Lorenzo was only a small town, while the rest of the country was occupied by little more than scattered villages. Even this fragile conquest of nature was about to be tested, for around 3,000 years ago there was a continent-wide disaster. In the north of the continent, drought killed off tracts of forest and allowed the prairies to expand westward. Far to the south, the people on the Peruvian coast surrendered parched fields back to nature, while the water level of Lake Titicaca dropped so low that the southern shore of the lake had to be abandoned. Mexico was not spared, and the community at San Lorenzo declined. It is tempting to lay this at the door of the weather. But was it the climate that emptied San Lorenzo?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>By 7 PM, the plaza was heaving with bodies. Families waving flags. Kids in tiny charro outfits. Food stalls steaming with sizzling tacos and hot tamales. Grandmas balancing trays of pozole like professional caterers. The smell alone could make you weep. All the roasted corn, sugar-dusted churros, and fried things I couldn’t name but immediately wanted to eat.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Then came the Grito. An official raised his hand. The crowd quieted. The mayor rang a massive, ceremonial bell and launched into a passionate chant that named heroes of independence, justice, freedom, and the people of Mexico. And after every name, the crowd responded with a shout that shook the cobblestones:</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Features - On being a bad immigrant - While these extreme rules aren’t in place anymore, the process has gotten murky with time. It doesn’t help that no federal requirements exist – they range from state to state, but premarital blood testing still largely exists. On the bright side, in 2021, Mexico's Supreme Court ruled that the State of Mexico's marriage laws were discriminatory on the basis of health and impeded one's right to form a family. Quintana Roo officially dropped the prenuptial test mandate in June (2026). Nowhere on Mexico City’s online marriage certificate registration site does it say a medical exam is required.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Thank the good whatever-you-believe-in, because that is one rule I’d absolutely refuse to engage in.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Features - On being a bad immigrant - While he chatters, I remove my headphones from around my neck and attempt to stuff them into my purse. They’re a bit clunky, so they don’t entirely fit.</image:title>
      <image:caption>I’m sorry, senorita, but you must close your purse. I zip the purse to about 76%. My protruding headphones block me from zipping any further. You must close your purse all the way.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I have probably learned the most through language. My Spanish is better than it was when I arrived, and I am still regularly reminded that I came from somewhere else. There are conversations in which I am a few seconds behind, procedures everyone around me seems to understand without explanation, and small exchanges in which another person has to make an accommodation for me. Most are unremarkable moments. Taken together, they have made foreignness something I experience instead of something I observe.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This isn’t a case of ordering a giant puppet from Amazon and waiting for the delivery driver. The bodies are built by hand. The traditional structure uses carrizo, a type of reed, which is shaped into the frame. Paper and paste are then used to create and reinforce the figure before the head is painted and the clothing made to fit. These aren’t small projects either. Oaxacan makers learn the craft from their own experiences growing up around Oaxaca’s celebrations and eventually develop it into a business, Many work with their families from small workshops at home. Depending on the size and complexity of the figure, one can take anywhere from a week to a month to make.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>But that’s almost beside the point, as the important part was that the children had made them. Because that’s how a tradition survives. Not by putting it behind glass or writing a plaque explaining where it came from, but by letting a child get covered in paste and paper and make a giant person with an enormous head. Oaxaca has plenty of traditions that have become familiar to outsiders, but the monos de calenda are different. They’re not really something you go to see. They’re something that happens. You might be walking through a town when suddenly there’s a band coming down the street and a collection of gigantic people dancing behind it. And, because this is Oaxaca, nobody seems particularly surprised. The figures themselves can change with the times, too. Historically, the characters could be satirical, representing different social groups or poking fun at recognizable figures. Over the years they’ve taken on characters from popular culture as well, including figures inspired by Mexican cinema.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The next hours I spend in a whirlwind of cobblestone alleyways and Neo-Gothic church facades made of pink sandstone. The sun beats down on my golden-tinged shoulders as I snap photos of bright bougainvillea, starbursts of magenta cascading over mustard-colored walls.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Luis Buñuel came to Mexico and used the building while making La ilusión viaja en tranvía (Illusion Travels by Streetcar). It’s difficult to imagine a more fitting location. Buñuel’s film follows a pair of tram workers who take a streetcar out for what was supposed to be a routine final journey and end up on an increasingly chaotic adventure through Mexico City.</image:caption>
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