So I understand over time. Spanish people start having kids with native Americans. Eventually Mexicans grew tired of the Spanish rule and didn’t want it anymore. Now when I go to Mexico. I understand people call themselves Mexicans. But when I was there In puerto Vallarta I encountered 2 men who spoke Spanish but also a Native American language. Nahuatl. They referred to themselves as different people. I can’t remember the name. My Mexican cousin referred to them as different people. I thought abt it and I just find it weird that as a Mexican you share the same blood yet you identify as a different nationality or ethnicity. I’ve heard my grandma use the word Huicholes. Shes Mexican as well.
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Like America, Mexico is a land of immigrants. Lots of European, Asian, etc. Lots of Native people too. They are all Mexicans (just like we are all Americans in the US) but the group you are probably thinking of as stereotypical Mexicans are generally mixed Native and European (Spanish). If they retain enough Native culture, language, etc. they might identify as such.
On a sidenote, Mexicans didn’t exactly just get tired of the Spanish. New Spain stretched from Central America to modern-day Cañada. France and Spain were rivals and Spain even won Louisiana from France.
Napoleon invaded Spain and Portugal, and “American-born Spaniards” (Mexicans) declared independence. The Mexican Empire only lasted a few years, then the Republic (Santa Anna) lost Texas, California, New Mexico and more (Mexican-American War). Then the French invade Mexico, set up an empire, which fell to a republic, and so on.
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