she’s basically accusing me of “stolen valor” by saying “youre not indigenous, youre mexican,” despite having 25% “indigenous peoples: mexico” on my ancestry DNA test. can anyone please explain to my mother how this works? i tried to explain it but she wont listen to me.
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The colonization of Mexico used the Indigenous peoples as slave labor by the Spanish. Naturally there grew a caste system with the pure bred Europeans at the top and the Indigenous people at the bottom. Mestizo were the mixed race majority, they also included other mixings including Blacks from the Caribbean and South America. As a result you’ll see quite a disparity in ethnic diversity, from the European looking to the more Indigenous. There was also quite a range in the ethnic types of Indigenous people from the Maya, Aztec, Apache, Navajo, just to name a few.
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