Post by Radrook Admin on Jun 7, 2023 18:30:02 GMT -5
La Raza
I recently viewed a video accusing Mexicans of promoting a white supremacist viewpoint. That is far from the truth. You see, the predominant Mexican attitude is pride in being Mestizo, a mix between white and Native American, not in being white. It is called mestizo and referred to as La Raza, literally, the race
A mestizo ideology was created (exemplified by the José Vasconcelos essay La raza cósmica) that mestizos are the result of racial mixing, and all Mexico must become mestizo so the country could achieve prosperity. After the Mexican Revolution, the government adopted and promoted the mestizo ideology to create a unified Mexican identity with no racial distinctions. By 1930, racial identities other than "indigenous" disappeared from the Mexican census. All Mexicans who did not speak indigenous languages (including European Mexicans) were now considered mestizo, transforming a racial identity into a national one..