Samuel Ramos

Samuel Ramos Magaña, PhD (1897 – June 20, 1959), was a Mexican philosopher and writer.

He published his first works in the school's student publication Flor de Loto.

He pursued specialized degrees at the Sorbonne, the Collège de France, and a University in Rome.

He sees the pelado, the "urban bum" of the 1920s and 1930s, as "the most elemental and clearly defined expression of national character".

The machismo of the pelado, he argues, is the result of an inferiority complex (based on Alfred Adler's concept) and, since the pelado represents the entire country, the "character study" is extended to all of Mexico, and was one of the first post-Revolutionary attempts to define and assess the national character.