Porfirio Diaz's Influence On Popular Culture

The endless and hidden aspects of popular culture interpreting the symbols within the society With or without our conscience, culture has always from part of our lives, since the moment we are born until we die. We live in a globalized world and dominated by different combinations of popular cultures that characterize each single human that transformers our history. For instance, Porfirio Diaz is a key symbol in Latin America because he was the president of Mexico for more than thirty years who establish a connection between the revolution of Mexico. Therefore, Porfirio Diaz is one of the many important symbols in Mexico; he influenced culture in many ways and for the purpose of this essay, Porfirio Diaz will be deconstructed in terms of his symbolic introduction of the variety of food like chilies en nogada in Mexican …show more content…
In the film Like Water for Chocolate, we can notice how Porfirio is secretly mention by the famous plate of chiles enogada that Tita made. Tita prepares the chilies enogada like nobody else; it is as if she had her own recipe written in her hands. Tita has the capacity of transmit her feeling through food. Chiles enogada are consider to be a plate prepared only on special occasions like the wedding of Esperanza and Alex, chiles are delicious to the point every guests are being cultivated by the unique taste. In addition, one women from the wedding asks Tita for the recipe; as a response to her question Tita answers, she made chilies enogada with love. Even though the women was not happy about the response, love is a key role to transmit who we are and to be able to cultivate hidden feelings. With the pleasure that chiles enogada are causing love to be in the air every guests are going crazy making love everywhere including the priest. There is no doubt, why the author included in the film chilies enogada as part of the