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Mexico is a very mom-centered culture. You'll find stores open on Father's Day, but never on Mother's Day. For us, mothers are very important.

— Juan Gabriel

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

— Kate Walsh

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.

— Margaret Heffernan

What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs; it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together.

— Javier Hernandez

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

— Patti Davis

I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.

— Paz Vega

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

— Susana Martinez

I think mothers are so important. I mean, it seems like such an obvious thing to say, but I think we don't really express that enough, apart from one day a year. So I think we need to come together and celebrate us every day.

— Christy Turlington

✗Opposing Perspectives

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

— Anne Lamott

My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do everything for him.

— Xochi Birch

I know my own father's business was very dependent on the goodwill and business and trade from people in northern Mexico. We knew their families and went to their weddings and baptisms and balls and picnics, and we had a great time with them.

— Linda Ronstadt