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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When the Spanish arrived in Mexico, there were already people there, indigenous peoples called the Aztecs and the Maya. These people were mostly wiped out by plagues that the Spanish brought over, and genocide. The Spanish also raped the Aztecs and Maya and therefore created a new ethnic group: Mestizos. Mesitzos are people who are a mix of indigenous and Spanish. Most Mexicans are Mestizo, it’s extremely rare to be 100% white or 100% indigenous in Mexico.
Mexicans don’t use the term Native American (they say indígena or indigenous), but for all intents and purposes, Aztecs and Mayans were Native Americans. They were the native people of an area of the Americas.
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