ABSTRACT
This chapter sketches the gradual advancement of this reaction, concentrating on the resurgence of a Mesoamerican worldview rooted in the spiritual concerns of a modern middle class that still tries to balance the multiculturalism of its origins. It is the product of long processes of enculturation, gradually moving from Creole ideology, through liberal beliefs in Order and Progress', as well as the accelerated industrialization of bourgeois capitalism, and the upsurge of nationalist sentiment through mass education. Grassroots movements like Mexicanidad illustrates how common people respond to these conditions. Their ideological underpinning strives for significant connotations prevalent in a worldview that still resists the impacts of evangelization, modernization, and globalization. In 1907, Batres characterized the infant burials at the Sun Pyramid as macabre sacrifices'. The 1917 Constitution maintained some controversial decisions of its 1857 predecessor, like the State's expropriation of Indian land.
