Karla M
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Very interesting, your history resembles ours in many ways ie the imposition of apartheid by outsiders in our case a tribe known as the aryans (Not Nordic) .Well basically the prominent tribes of punjab (ones who own land , well represented in the army) are the MEZITO of punjab, and the low caste tribes, whose paternal heritage is from this land, they in many ways are under represented in all important aspects of life ie politics, the military (in pak military on your enrollment form you are asked to state your caste, if one is a Kammi(low caste) then more than likely his origins will preclude him from having a succesful career). Even though i am not familiar with the dynamics of mexican society i presume the pure aztecs and maya are under represented in government institiuitons and have little of the national wealth.
You also made a point about how some mexican would give a speech about how proud they are of their mezito origin, but they would probably not have a clue to which civilization they have connections too, nothing could be more true of the indian subcontinent where almost every prominent tribe claims aryan or arab descent, when most of them are actually descended from obscure uncultured central asian tribes like the scythians and many other invaders from beyond the hindu kush.
One final point i read some where, a lot of romani gypsies from spain and portugal emigrated to south america especially to brazil, out of curiosity do you know if there was any significant migration to mexico.
there are aztecs no more... either killed or mixed and now mestizos...
maybe a way to see is:
Mexican-- Nationality which includes:
- mestizos -- one ethnicity (mixture of spanish and local civilization) +90% of population (even though we have no idea of our background, we just know we're the result of mixture! so most of us, we know we cant claim to have ancenstry to an specific one) .... so the mexican state education, completely disregarding the rest of castes, (each caste depended of the % of european ancestry) and put them all on this one Mestizos... to create one and only Mexican Identity with a common history trait: being conquested by spain
- indigenas -- the other 60 ethnicities who didnt mix ... and somehow---some of those 60-- unwilling to identify or participate in any kind of Mexican institution...(army, education, society) they just kind of want to be left alone and not to be stolen..maybe some they'll accept if being asked that they're mexican just because they are born under the mexican territory ..but they do not have the feeling of belonging...
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