Diverse specialists, mostly anthropologists, state that the two main identity traits of people or communities are the mother tongue and food. There are many examples of this. For instance, the remarkable way in which Mexicans who forcefully or willingly emigrate to the United States maintain their mother tongue but more so their culinary customs. Some of these customs, as is the case of the «tortilla» have gone beyond the Mexican and Chicano communities and have been embraced by thousands of North Americans. The same is true in other countries with emigration. Our country has not only been the scenario for multiple cultural interchanges, but has also received, since the conquest, numerous foreign groups.
