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Explicitly multicultural and/or intercultural education is a very recent and still marginal educational phenomenon in Mexico. However, the long-standing Latin American and particularly Mexican tradition of indigenismo constitutes a kind of “multiculturalism avant la lettre” that still shapes the educational institutions specifically designed for the country's 68 indigenous peoples who make up approximately 10% of the Mexican population. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; Mexico, Multicultural Education in]
multicultural education in Mexico