Maize, or maize, plays a vital role in many areas of the world today, and each location views and handles maize in a different way. How they handle corn can show small details about the area and the culture as a whole. Not only is corn a staple today, but it also had a huge presence in the lives of ancient Native Americans; corn is sometimes revered as a deity and other times as a gift to the people from the Creator or a culture hero. After a brief history of corn, the comparison of the United States with China and Hungary will offer a broad range of countries and cultures to show how each views corn. We will then examine ancient legends about how corn came into being, how it is revered, and how it was planted according to Native Americans. Evidence has shown that the corn we know today is very different from the first time it was domesticated in Mexico. Although researchers and academia recognize that corn began its global journey in Mexico, they are unsure about the time and place of first domestication (American Society of Plant Biologist). Through genetics, teosinte is discovered to be the wild ancestor of corn. While the two don't look much alike, at the DNA level they are surprisingly similar, such as having the same number of chromosomes and a remarkably similar arrangement of genes (University of Utah). Currently, the United States is the largest producer of corn in the world. In 2010 it produced 32% of the world's corn crop. Corn is grown on approximately 400,000 U.S. farms, demonstrating the importance of corn in the U.S. diet. Twenty percent of the corn produced is exported, and corn grown for grain production accounts for nearly a quarter of the acres harvested in this country (National Corn Grower's Associatio...... half of the paper......ther .The Native Americans maintained corn at a high standard, higher than that of any other country today. For the Natives, corn was essentially a gift of life. They learned how to grow it as best as possible without harming the environment that surrounded them one with nature. In conclusion, corn has come a long way since its first domestication started as a prized possession for the natives as they worshiped corn goddesses and had constant rituals that allowed them to receive corn and thank it. US views appear to be to produce as much as possible – and profit from it. China and Hungary also aim to produce corn, but are limited to unmodified corn, although all of the previously mentioned groups have/have had their own. way of looking at corn, one thing is certain: corn is a popular plant and is currently essential to our lives.