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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Jumping on the bandwagon but like what’s not to get? Despite the rhetoric Mexico is certainly a part of the Americas, and it’s the part of the Americas that the Europeans conquered pretty much right away and they did the same awful shit that their far northern neighbors experienced way later. I say this sarcastically but this is America. Mexico is America and Mexicans got it as bad as the rest of the Americans during colonialization. Stolen valor my ass, it’s no more stolen than a kid celebrating his or her family being on the beaches of Normandy or surviving the holocaust. Or in this context I might say “a holocaust,” indigenous America got it pretty fuckin bad
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