Why are traditional mexican foods, catholic religious traditions, and mexican festivals popular in the american southwest?

The American southwest was first travelled and established by the Spanish who carried their Catholic religious societies to the area. The food is perhaps more of a combination between Spanish and Indian palates. Indians showed the Spanish what was eatable in the New World and everyone placed it all together. Likewise, the zone was formerly a part of Mexico.

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swahili is an extremely rich and complex civilization, a set of ethnic groups articulated by a language and a series of cultural elements that fuse the african traditions, islam and indian culture. this growth was largely a result of the indian ocean trading network that brought in not just man-made riches, but also religious ideas, specifically islam, which had a significant impact on the local culture. furthermore, the development of the swahili language gave a common cultural unity to the people.