Why do Mexican people call themselves spanish when they are 99 percent amerindian?
I find it very funny when Mexican people claim they are spanish. If you ever go to Spain you will notice that Spanish people have much much much more in common with those hated gringoes than ANY mexican. Why dont they just come out and call themselves native american? Because they are more native american than most if not all native american tribes in the United states.
A well traveled man.
All I am saying is that Spanish people and culture is very very very different to Mexican people and Culture. Its like calling haitians french, it makes no sense.
Pepe those 60 percent mestizos are like 95 percent amerindian. and those 10 percent "spanish" are like 50 percent amerindian
If you EVER GO TO SPAIN, the people are much much closer to "gringoes".
Mexicana your analogy is 100 percent wrong. Mexicans are to Spaniards as Haitians are to French. GO TO SPAIN and you will see what I mean, everyone is gringo.
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I’m mexican and it’s totally fake :S
It’s horrible to be racist..
Good luck in ur life!
Viva México
Shout out to all spanish speaking people.
Black,Brown,White,Mixed,Whatever.
Paz
Um okay soo i’ve heard that most mexicans come from spanish ancestry…like from Spain…i’m mexican but i come from a spanish decent so i call my self ”Spanish” when people tell me what origin are you….so the person who did this is totally wrong! And in my opinion mexicans are spanish.
What a mess with some comments… we, the Spanierds are white and also caucasians… this in all Europe, we are not better than the other but please do not try to make us different that we are…
Ahh…ignorance… and this person states he’s well-travelled… I bet he hasn’t even been to Mexico. Read more, grow up and stop embarrassing yourself with narrow-minded, useless comments.
This idiot has never been to Mexico, I have seen blond mexicans, Japanese Mexicans, African Mexican all from Mexico, you need to go to south of Spain Moron!! there you will find spanish people that have dark hair and brown eyes with olive skin.
Well i’m native american(Navajo/Apache/Cherokee/Blackfoot) also African american, and Cuban hispanic, so everyone in the world is mixed to a high degree, why do we put lables on humans?
It’s idiotic and ignorant.
The OP says mexicans are more native american than most native american tribes? what in the world does that mean!? it makes no sense.
Amen Im German/Jew Irish/Cherokee English/Lumbee mix yes im a mut who is very proud of my native ancestry but to all who believe we are all brothers and sisters.Though I dont know of African ancestry iv got a cuz who does and she is still my cuz and my pride.We all need to recognize we are human and we are all related and stop with th hate.PEACE
Spanish isn’t a native language anywere in the Americas. Spanish was forced upon the native peoples, ie: Incas, Mayans, etc. and English upon the North American peoples. Spanish is the language of the conquistadors who conqured and enslaved the native peoples in South and Central America. They also decimated the North American natives enslaving them to mine the precious gems and ores they coveted. They would massacre everyone in the native settlements when they were finished, but they didn’t stay and settle in North America, like they did in the Southern Americas. I think those that identify with being Spanish more than their native identity is due to that those civilizations were so entirely destroyed, so long ago, that they probably don’t feel as connected to that ancestry. Even tho, I believe more and more of the young people are describing themselves as Aztecs or Incas, etc.
Identity is not only defined by “race” or “ethnicity”, but also and mainly by culture. Thinking this ways seems very tipically US-American.
Racially, Mexicans are basically a mix of Europeans (mainly Spanish people) and Native Americans. “pure” native in Mexico are about 30% only, far to the 99% you said. About 15% of Mexicans are pure Spanish/European.
Outside those racial compositions in Mexico and Spain, the two countries share language, religion and some other cultural aspects of Spanish origin that Spain does not share with the USA. Saying that Spanish people are much closer to the US-Americans than to Mexicans is somehow absurd, since Spain and USA share very few culturally speaking, being majoritary “white” in both cases doesn’t mean munch(it is not even the same “whiteness” since Spain is “mediterranean white” and the US is mainly northern European white…)
Hahahaha! I AGREE, french observer, it is cultural what they are representing. And YES, Haitians ARE FRENCH, just as much as a land born Frenchman is French. You are born from the same mother and father as your siblings, all with the same cultural roots that your parents introduced you to in the growing process. You adopted, adapted and advanced this protocol (culture) you were made whole with in the unified practice of adulthood. Yet – you and your siblings might express it differently. You have a few siblings that practice their upbringing in exact replication of your parent’s methods, others diversify. Their ALL IN THE FAMILY! Sometimes you want to disown some siblings and even parent’s change their minds about core values you thought were written in stone. When you hear about the change for some younger siblings who reigned after your days of proving were over, you want to raise a revolt to turn back to the values they once taught you. Then every few decades you all get together and have a shindig called a ‘family reunion’ and you celebrate the differences, the old and the new. You are open and receptive to the pride you all started in the same place, from the same seed, but have blossomed into a what?!!! A NATION!!!
Some relatives come that you never even knew existed, but you recognize them as one of the ten digits extending from the same hand because the core values/language/dialect/possession are the same! Or they have a fragmented piece of the family crest or some other remarkable artifact articulated only through the family code. Of course, people denounce one another all the time, but then you cannot remove the stain from the atom that is remarkably human.
Now racially, my very own sister is fair as snow and her hair was dirty blonde as a child. I’ve another sibling who is dark as evening tide, but has hair as glistening and curly smooth as Li’l Bo Peep’s sheep. My aunt has hair as sleek as a woman of Asian or Native American descent, so should I denounce any of them because I do not look the same? I highly doubt it. Some people do, but they end up with less to eat at night, less technology to light their paths and less knowledge to feed their children – Thus is the Community of Ignorance.
try saying that to the people in northern mexico where most their descent is european and they will slap the taste of your mouth you ignorant human being yea most of them are natives especially in the South of mex all im gonna say educate your self before speaking your mind. I dont think my blonde aunt has any native in her or my great grandpa that is pale like a cracker but any how is what you make of it what counts youll never know untlil you see what like in a person dark or light
its offending when people assume just because the majority is indians doesnt simplify that they are all indian mix with spanish or french german whatever shit i dont know what im mixed all i know i have more euro in me cuz of the color of my skin and simply looking at my family tall pale white blonde or dark hair, color eyes who cares shit i maybe spanish french if anything with probably a tenth of indian appearances tell a lot i think but the beauty of it is being exotic is what im most proud of
Slap yourself for saying those idiotic words of uninformed stupidity of yours… Amerinidian doesn’t exist you moron many Aztecs died during conquistador times by diseases and weapons HOW would someone want to feel happy of a forced change of culture, language and ways to live?.. But Americans should know because they took land that wasnt theirs and almost killed a culture, further more it doesn’t matter because we are ALL humans not uncivilized animals.. VIVA MEXICO PUTOS!!
Spanish people brought to america their language, religion and culture also they mixed to native america people that’s why we are ‘mestizos’. For most of us ‘latinos’, spanish and amerindian blood is running through our veins and just few percentage of people is still 100% pure amerindian. We do have things in common with spanish people as somehow we share what they brought to us (what they imposed) and I’m not talking about skin color which is the less important thing to mention when we speak about human beings. I’m proud of my unique culture (spanish, amerindian, african)and my beautiful tanned skin color … Abajo el racismo!!
wow obviously ignorance is in the air google it idiot all mexicans have spanish ancestors thus making most of us spanish!
This kind of texts just reforce the stereotypical idea we all have about the american ignorance. Congratulations gringo.
I’ve never met a Mexican person who has claimed to be Spanish. I’m fairly light skinned and people ask me all the time what my ethnicity is and I ALWAYS say Mexican. To be honest, I don’t even know if Mexican is an ethnicity, but my parents are Mexican and I’m not white, so that’s what I say. But I never ever say Spanish because I’m not. I have no connection to Spain, apart from the language and maybe some ancestors from centuries ago. I am not Spanish. When people who look Mexican tell me they are Spanish, I believe them. I have no reason to doubt what they say. If they say it because they are ashamed to be Mexican, then I definitely pity them.
My name is Sofía Núñez Larios and I’m Mexican. Both my last names, one from dad, one from mom, are found in many Spanish streets. Although I wouldn’t call myself Spanish, I am not completely out of the loop as when all Americans give you twenty nationalities when they tell you what they are.
OK now, was every here born in MEXICO?? I am a proud american firt and formost my mom and dad are from mexico but I was not born there so I consider my myself american? I don’t get it? This is why we have so much racism..