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Read Dia de los muertos comes to life across the Mexican diaspora By Isabel Dobrin
, 2017.
A: Which of the following identifies the central idea of the text?
A. Día de los Muertos is always evolving, but what’s important is maintaining the original essence of the holiday.
B. While purposes for celebrating Día de los Muertos have changed, it’s important that how the holiday is celebrated is consistent.
C. When holidays and traditions are adopted by mainstream media, like Día de los Muertos was, they tend to lose their original spirit.
D. As Día de los Muertos becomes more popular in America, it is being celebrated in a casual manner that disrespects the holiday.
Answer: A. Día de los Muertos is always evolving, but what’s important is maintaining the original essence of the holiday.
Explanation:
The central idea of the text is that, despite the changes in form, Día de los Muertos still keeps its original essence. The spread of Mexicans throughout the US has taken this Pre-Columbian tradition to be reshaped and there´s a lot of work to be done to remind everyone of the historical importance of Day of the Dead. However, despite the changes in this evolving contemporary tradition, its spirit remains intact.
American conservative William F. Buckley once said that he'd rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston phonebook than the 2000 faculty members of Harvard. (Somewhat ironic, coming from a guy who went to Yale and then founded an intellectually rigorous journal.) But our point is, Orwell might have agreed: in Animal Farm pigs take control because they're the smartest animals on the farm and then turn right around and start abusing that power.
But you can't just blame the eggheads. The pigs would never have succeeded if they other animals hadn't blindly gone along with it. Moral of the story: you don't need to go to Yale, but you do need to form some opinions of your own.
To present all sides of the story