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 costumes. It was born as a human development project, endogenous and autonomous. It is profoundly associated to spirituality; its creation is anonymous, autonomous and historical. In general “the Matria” has always protected all her children in her amorous bosom.

As of the Cultural Control Theory, “of the own and the foreign” of Dr. Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, we can define: The “Patria” is foreign. The “Matria” is our own. The first is directed and governed by political and economic elite. The second is conformed and lived by the people. For common citizens, the “control” of the “patria” is foreign. On the other hand, the “control” of the “Matria” is by the individual self. Decisions over the “Patria” are foreign; decisions over the “Matria” are ours. The “Patria” is an imposed “cultural phenomenon”. The “Matria” is an “autonomous culture” phenomenon.

The “Patria” comes from Greco-Latin world inspiration and materializes with the creation of the first country in the world, United States of America, in 1776 and subsequently the French Revolution. The “Matria” on the other hand, is born in our land and with our people, approximately 8 millennia ago and is one of the six oldest civilizations, with autonomous origins, in mankind history. It possesses a millenary wisdom, in food, health, education, organization and maintained for thousands of years, the same “social purpose” directed to the sacred and divine of the world and life.

Has had existence spiritual transcendence in its development pyramid upper vertex. Its social purpose was conceived by communities. The human being is a child of earth and earth is understood as a live and sacred entity. The human being has as superior responsibility, to polish his spiritual energy and cooperate to maintain the planet and the mysterious forces of the universe in equilibrium.

The “Matria” bases its sustaining forces in the spiritual consciousness of the individual, family unity in values and ancestral attitudes, absolute respect to nature. Community cohesion and community life, hence it rejects private property, the use of weapons and violence, as well as the use of currency,