National identity and cultural celebrations - Case study

We start from the assumption that in several Latin American republics there is a previously constructed national identity, which has been reinforced in the cultural celebrations of both the Centenary and the more recent Bicentenary, carried out by the political activity of the government in power. The starting hypothesis is that the political-cultural discourse of cultural celebrations responds to official ideology, aiming to reinforce national identity, adapting it to a new socio-historical context. And how these celebrations have served to further reinforce this national identity, in accordance with the purposes and positions of the official agenda. If we focus on the case study of Mexico's political community, we can see how throughout two key moments in its history, Independence, the Mexican Revolution and their respective acts and cultural demands, a discourse and a reform of this national identity , which consolidated the national project of identity characteristics as a whole, but a constructed whole, not something immanent and previous created, but rather it is the people through their historical path that creates, configures and gives color to this entire set of cultural elements or ingredients that constitute its identity as a people and as a nation. We try to answer what was done during the bicentennial and why it was done that way. To understand how the political-cultural discourse of the bicentennials in its context and purposes, explains and lists its main identity traits in the form of a catalogue.