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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Mexican culture is the result of the blending of Spanish and Aztec cultures (and a splash of Napoleonic French). It’s even in the name. The Spanish arrived and asked the Aztecs where they were and they answered, “Mexica.” And the Spanish went, “No, it has an ‘a’ at the end so that means it’s a girls name. We’re in Mexic***o***.”
A lot of Aztecs died during the Spanish colonization and conquest, but many didn’t. There were a lot of encounters; some consensual and some not, that blended the bloodlines.
Does she not know the story of La Malinche?
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