Contemporary+Issues

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The biggest problem that modern day Purepechas face is poverty. “Deforestation scars the mountainsides and abandoned farm plots shrivel under the hot son.” []. To combat this problem, many Tarascans are emigrating north, to the United States. What has happened is quite interesting. Many of these Tarascans have settled in South Seattle. There has been a Purepecha community established in the suburbs of the city. According to some estimates, half of one Purepechan town (Quinceo) has emigrated the nearly three thousand miles from their South Mexican origins, into the Seattle suburb.