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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A good portion of practically all Mexican’s ancestors are native to **North** America. The continent, not the nation. Tha means they are “indigenous” to North America. The Aztec empire (and all the surrounding groups) had millions and millions of people. Small pox wiped out a lot, but their numbers simply never cratered like the smaller and more commonly nomadic tribes further north.
The conquistadors were horrific rat-bastards in just about every way. They conquered the natives and systemically wiped out their culture, fooling them into thinking they were Spanish. They really did bring over a lot of Spanish citizens, so all of central America is now a mix of some percent Spanish (the European sort, not the language) and some percent indigenous. But by importing and forcefully converting everyone over to the Catholic church (and murdering everyone who said no), they wiped out a whole lot of history and culture.
To put this in overly simplistic terms: Ask her why Mexicans have darker skin if Spanish people have white European skin? Where does she think that comes from?
Maybe she doesn’t know what “indigenous” means? Explain that Germans are indigenous to Europe.
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