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	<title>Comments on: Why do Mexican people call themselves spanish when they are 99 percent amerindian?</title>
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		<title>By: pat</title>
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		<dc:creator>pat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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&#039;t get it? This is why we have so much racism..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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&#8217;t get it? This is why we have so much racism..</p>
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		<title>By: Sofia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sofia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My name is Sofía Núñez Larios and I&#039;m Mexican. Both my last names, one from dad, one from mom, are found in many Spanish streets. Although I wouldn&#039;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.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My name is Sofía Núñez Larios and I&#8217;m Mexican. Both my last names, one from dad, one from mom, are found in many Spanish streets. Although I wouldn&#8217;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.</p>
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		<title>By: Guero</title>
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		<dc:creator>Guero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve never met a Mexican person who has claimed to be Spanish. I&#039;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&#039;t even know if Mexican is an ethnicity, but my parents are Mexican and I&#039;m not white, so that&#039;s what I say. But I never ever say Spanish because I&#039;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.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve never met a Mexican person who has claimed to be Spanish. I&#8217;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&#8217;t even know if Mexican is an ethnicity, but my parents are Mexican and I&#8217;m not white, so that&#8217;s what I say. But I never ever say Spanish because I&#8217;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.</p>
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		<title>By: Manuel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Manuel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This kind of texts just reforce the stereotypical idea we all have about the american ignorance. Congratulations gringo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This kind of texts just reforce the stereotypical idea we all have about the american ignorance. Congratulations gringo.</p>
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		<title>By: mary</title>
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		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>wow obviously ignorance is in the air google it idiot all mexicans have spanish ancestors thus making most of us spanish!</description>
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		<title>By: Diana</title>
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		<dc:creator>Diana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Spanish people brought to america their language, religion and culture also they mixed to native america people that&#039;s why we are &#039;mestizos&#039;. For most of us &#039;latinos&#039;, 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&#039;m not talking about skin color which is the less important thing to mention when we speak about human beings. I&#039;m proud of my unique culture (spanish, amerindian, african)and my beautiful tanned skin color ... Abajo el racismo!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spanish people brought to america their language, religion and culture also they mixed to native america people that&#8217;s why we are &#8216;mestizos&#8217;. For most of us &#8216;latinos&#8217;, 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&#8217;m not talking about skin color which is the less important thing to mention when we speak about human beings. I&#8217;m proud of my unique culture (spanish, amerindian, african)and my beautiful tanned skin color &#8230; Abajo el racismo!!</p>
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		<title>By: Kittyluvsyuh</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kittyluvsyuh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 03:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Slap yourself for saying those idiotic words of uninformed stupidity of yours... Amerinidian doesn&#039;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&#039;t matter because we are ALL humans not uncivilized animals.. VIVA MEXICO PUTOS!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Slap yourself for saying those idiotic words of uninformed stupidity of yours&#8230; Amerinidian doesn&#8217;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&#8217;t matter because we are ALL humans not uncivilized animals.. VIVA MEXICO PUTOS!!</p>
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		<title>By: xavi hernandez</title>
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		<dc:creator>xavi hernandez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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</p>
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		<title>By: xavi hernandez</title>
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		<dc:creator>xavi hernandez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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</p>
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		<title>By: Nicole</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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&#039;s methods, others diversify.  Their ALL IN THE FAMILY!  Sometimes you want to disown some siblings and even parent&#039;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 &#039;family reunion&#039; 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&#039;ve another sibling who is dark as evening tide, but has hair as glistening and curly smooth as Li&#039;l Bo Peep&#039;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.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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 &#8211; you and your siblings might express it differently.  You have a few siblings that practice their upbringing in exact replication of your parent&#8217;s methods, others diversify.  Their ALL IN THE FAMILY!  Sometimes you want to disown some siblings and even parent&#8217;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 &#8216;family reunion&#8217; 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!!!</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Now racially, my very own sister is fair as snow and her hair was dirty blonde as a child.  I&#8217;ve another sibling who is dark as evening tide, but has hair as glistening and curly smooth as Li&#8217;l Bo Peep&#8217;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 &#8211; Thus is the Community of Ignorance.</p>
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