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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First, why is this an argument between you and your mom? Don’t y’all have better things to discuss?
Now for the answer…. This used to be taught in school. Not sure if it is any more. But the common theory of people in north, central, and south America is that they were nomads that came over the ice bridge from Russia to Alaska and continued south. Some stopped along the way, some kept moving south.
US indigenous Americans would naturally be very closely related to indigenous Mexicans. The Mexicans just kept moving south while the other stopped along the way to settle.
This is why this entire line of people look so similar to each other. From “Eskimos” all the way down in to indigenous people of south America.
This of course gets a bit mixed in areas because of European colonization. So you have whiter looking Mexicans and similar.
I’d recommend that you and your mom sit down and do a family tree. Really figure things out instead of arguing about this nonsense.
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