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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Well this is not unique. Many countries have different ethnicities within one country. Remember that nationality deals with what country you live in, but not ethnicity. Like Aboriginal Australians are still Australians. Native Americans are US Americans. Look at Russia, it has many ethnicities and they are all Russians. Some have very strong Asian features, some are very Slavic… all are Russians.
And the most obvious of all is the USA, and apart from Native Americans, you have Americans of many ethnicities that are still Americans.
Same with Mexico, they all live in the Country of Mexico, but are different people.
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