(for my mom): can someone explain to her how mexicans are part native american?

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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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You might want to show this to your mother: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/genetically-theres-no-such-thing-mexican-n129866

>Mexicans themselves show such extreme diversity that someone from the dry north is genetically as different from someone from the Yucatan as a European is from an East Asian.

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