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After the Mexican Revolution (1910–20), a jingoistic ethnocentrism emerged among Mexico’s leading intellectuals in the forging of the country’s nationalism. Mexican culture had to pass the test of lo mexicano—the study of the Mexican ethos through a certain psychoanalytical framework—for it to be part of the larger project of mexicanidad (Mexicanness).