I know many people make fun of black Americans for the 'WE WUZ KAINGZ N SHIET!' phenomena, but I would say that Mexicans (including those living int he U.S.) are just as bad with this 'WE WUZ' mentality.
Consider the average Mexican legitimately believes both that he is descended from specifically Maya or Aztec heritage (despite most Mexicans actually being descended from other less impressive Amerindians), and that many Mexicans seriously believe that the Aztecs/Maya were so "advanced", and that such advancement could only have come from intervention from extra-terrestrials - in essence, we get a 'WE WUZ ALIENS N SHIET'. This belief/national mythos has morphed into a "we would be better off if the Spaniards had never arrived!" type of thinking (despite the average Mexican being unable to live without products specifically born from the Columbian exchange and despite their inclination for a thoroughly European religion, etc.).
My own parents insist the Maya/Aztecs and other cultures (particularly that of Teotihuacan) built their pyramids with extra-terrestrial help, because of the "no wheels!" thing. Where would I find technical information as to how these pyramids were built? Obviously, I don't believe in the ancient aliens trash.
That's really not a trend except for some stupud chairos. >Second to best with chile >Laughing stock At least we can eat fa.m
David Fisher
Funny considering that Mexico's economy and military are the strongest in Latin America. Not to mention that Mexico has the most and best traditional culture.
Alexander Long
Well when you get to culture it's all opinions but I'll give you the first two points
Gabriel Nelson
Mesoamerican civilisations were on a par with anything in the Old World Bronze Age, which is no mean feat for such a shitty location, so completely isolated from developments in the Old World.
Blacks, on the other hand, never developed past the stone age in societal organisation, notably failing to master literacy even despite long-term contact with literate civilisations.
Mexicans have much to be proud of, blacks, not so much.
Jaxson Rivera
Only oaxaca scum believe any of that shit, seriously who the fuck thinks that mexico would be better off if the Spanish didn't come? Anyways the we wuz kings are trying to take someone else's accomplishments and paint them as their own.
Kevin Watson
I know that lots of Mexicans in the United States say that they can't be illegal immigrants because of their Aztec heritage (and implying that white people are the illegals). They are so deluded that they don't even realize that the American Indians banded together with the Spanish to destroy the Aztecs.
Chase Cook
>I know that lots of Mexicans in the United States say that they can't be illegal immigrants because of their Aztec heritage
Aztecs weren't even native to most of Mexico, tho. Certainly, no Aztec lived in what is now the USA.
Oliver White
nope, mexicans are bros, way better than culombians and nigger-ricans
t. Chile
Chase Sanchez
It's not worse than blacks because there were actual pyramids and a civilization in Mexico as opposed to blacks who only invented Aids.
Justin Sullivan
>Mesoamerican civilisations were on a par with anything in the Old World Bronze Age, which is no mean feat for such a shitty location, so completely isolated from developments in the Old World. Mesoamerican advances in bronze technology weren't independent, literally imported from the south americans. Don't come to me with your bullshit, africans in the other hand had iron technology, something the native americans never developed. I also don't think any civilization of the old world bronze age was on par with those bloody and degenerate cultures of mesoamerica.
Luke Adams
Africans never developed iron either, they adopted it from outsiders. But in any event I obviously didn't mean to >imply that the Aztecs were, in fact, an Old World Bronze Age culture and it's incredible autistic of you to assume I did.
Jonathan Anderson
>Africans never developed iron either, they adopted it from outsiders.
>Iron use, in smelting and forging for tools, appears in Nok culture in Africa at least by 550 BC and possibly earlier. Christopher Ehret has suggested that iron smelting was independently discovered in the region prior to 1000 BC.
You sure about that?
Daniel Thomas
>Im a coconut
Nathaniel Green
Yes I'm sure about that. One find means nothing, even if the Nok DID independently invent it, most black Africans learned it from non-blacks.
Adrian Rodriguez
>Mesoamerican advances in bronze technology weren't independent, literally imported from the south americans. There were bronze tools prior to the that, but the alloy was softer.
>I also don't think any civilization of the old world bronze age was on par with those bloody and degenerate cultures of mesoamerica. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull
No need to start bashing a whole culture just because someone else did.
Benjamin Thompson
>Mexico's economy and military are the strongest in Latin America
considering allies for global interest however? whos to say russia or someone one bolster their forces or supply
Brody Williams
>whos to say russia or someone one bolster their forces or supply
Monroe Doctrine. Also, learn to write grammatically, the way you write makes you appear stupid.
Dominic Martinez
Are you perhaps a >CHICANO? Because as a mexican, I assure you none other than hippies and our own version of "1/16 Navajo instagram girl" believes in WEWUZ nonsense, hell, most probably do not care about their heritage at all, that was the point of creating a "mestizo" identity, we're all half-bloods.
The whole alien thing is american bullshit propaganda thou, mostly because people who know nothing about pre columbian civilizations would have a hard time believing some buttnaked brownies could build such marvelous constructions.
Levi Ortiz
The Aztecs are long gone, and good riddance to them, but the Maya are still the ethnic majority in many of their historic areas and are perfectly justified in considering themselves the heirs to Mesoamerican civilisation.
Jack Rodriguez
It seems that you misspelled "Argentina"
Logan Hernandez
Mexico´s military is a total joke for so big a country
Ryan Collins
Top kek my white friend!
Nathaniel Williams
Just in case you didn't know, the main allies of the Spaniards, the Tlaxcalans, were Aztecs too.
Eli Richardson
WE
Wyatt Cox
They were Nahua but that doesn't make them Aztecs. That's like saying the Spanish are French, or that the Athenians were Spartan.
Angel Jenkins
Modern Maya are as much heirs to the mesoamerican civilisation as debts and italians are to hellenic and roman culture. Maya do not consider themselves mexicans, but 500 years under mexican/spanish rule and 600 since the fall of the great classic mayan kingdoms, other than language they are as much maya as we are aztecs.
Luis Howard
Not memeing this time. The Tlaxcalans were one of the wandering tribes of Aztlan. They gought against the Mexica, who were the Aztecs that settled in the lake of Texcoco. And I'm not claiming every Mexican is Tlaxcalan, I'm saying that not every Aztec was Mexica.
Joseph Sanders
>They gought They fought
Isaiah Campbell
No people stays the same forever, but even so there is still a difference between an Englishman and a Welshman, or a Mexican and a Mayan. Even if all that is left are the genes, that's still something.
Oliver Ramirez
>Blacks, on the other hand, never developed past the stone age in societal organisation, notably failing to master literacy even despite long-term contact with literate civilisations. This is wrong, though. The Horn of Africa was always just one or two hundred years behind India and the Peninsular Arabs technologically. Islamic Western Subsaharan Africa did develop past the Bronze Age (and thus all the Native American civilizations) around the 1000s.
The only parts of Africa that were permanently stuck in the Stone Age, were the regions from Congo and below. And precisely because they didn't really have much outside contact.
Hunter Thompson
The Maya not only speak the language but continue many of the traditions. The Gods were replaced by Saints, but they still go to caves with candles to leave offerings for them. Hell, they still have daykeepers and medicine men (though you gotta watch out for the scammers). Many still follow the 260 day ritual calendar. And they still have oral stories with some of the same characters one finds in their precolumbian mythology. Their way of life was transformed radically, but they are very much heirs to the their ancestors.
Easton Fisher
>I know many people make fun of black Americans for the 'WE WUZ KAINGZ N SHIET!' phenomena, but I would say that Mexicans (including those living int he U.S.) are just as bad with this 'WE WUZ' mentality.
Perhaps, but nobody is worse than white people.
Jace Morales
the difference is that white people actually wuz kings n' shiet
Gavin Gonzalez
WE
Zachary Johnson
So was everyone. Bragging about distant ancestors, real or imaginary, is always super cringeworthy. It is ALWAYS losers doing it.
Alexander Young
The alien idea is completely opposite to the idea of a glorified past. Alien theories essentially say these people are too stupid or limited to do such impressive things and when selectively applied can be a little racist. For example they are always saying that about the pyramids in Egypt, to a lesser extent to Aztecs and Mayas, but not as often to Europeans or Asians. Maybe because their monumental architecture was a little more recent.
Besides that we shouldn't completely denigrate Amerindian society (not civilisation, most were not civilized in an etymological sense). Sure they got a lot of products from the Old World but they also gave a lot and I'm sure most of the people in the period would rather not have traded for many diseases.
Besides if Mexicans weren't catholic, they probably wouldn't lose any sleep over it. A lot of them are becoming irreligious.
Landon Flores
>white "people"
Blake Torres
>mfw seeing Mexicans protest over how they should own "Aztlan".
Fucking bastards, I'll defend my beautiful state until the end from their disgusting, grubby hands. We don't need another state to join the failed nation of Cartela.
Levi Long
what are you talking about?
David Jenkins
The shit I have to put up with while living in California.
Gavin Peterson
Spic here. My parents always taught me we were Spaniard stock. Our sole Indian ancestor assimilated quite well, got himself a land grant and started a successful agricultural business in Sonora.
Maybe your parents are just niggerspics.
Colton Harris
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Connor Mitchell
One of the things I love about Mexican culture is how proud they are of their native heritage yet they treat their natives like shit. Must be one of the worse forms of double think to exist today
John Cook
Literally almost everyone on the planet has royal blood in some degree. So, in truth, "we wuz all kangz n shiet."
Caleb Morris
>Egypt >Don't even get me started I kek'd
Tyler Peterson
Mexican Indians wont Modernize and assimilate into Meztiso culture thats why they are discriminated They and plus Mayans are discriminated i dont think Nahua people are discriminated And if they are its probably because of Mexico's Political Europhile class
Juan Foster
I'm Mexican and i think thats cringe i hate these people with a passion They think that only because Muh Mexican-American war
>these people are just uneducated Bracero Scum >Honestly these people destroy Mexico's Reputation with every word they speak
