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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #47760 Corn People
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Descendants  of  the  Maya  living  in  Mexico  still  sometimes  refer  to  themselves  as  the  corn  people.  The  phrase  is  not  intended  as  metaphor.  Rather,  its  meant  to    their  abiding  dependence  on  this  miraculous  grass,  the    of  their  diet  for  almost  9,000  years.  Forty  percent  of  the  calories  a  Mexican  eats  in  a  day  comes  directly    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  Mexicans  body  is  to  a  considerable  extent  a    of  this  plant.

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