Descendants of the Maya living in Mexico still sometimes refer…

Descendants of the Maya living in Mexico still sometimes refer to themselves as the corn people. The phrase is not intended as a 1. Rather, it's meant to 2 their abiding dependence on this miraculous grass, the 3 of their diet for almost nine thousand years. Forty percent of the calories a Mexican eats in a day comes directly from corn, most of it in the form of tortillas. So when a Mexican says I am maize or corn walking, it is simply a statement of fact: The very substance of the Mexican body is to a considerable extent a 4 of this plant.