Latina america has a heavy influence by Spain, Portuquese and France colonist. So similary like north america, while there are indigenous people, lots of them are decendents of colonizers, so you cant just compare Latinos to Native Americans.
Edit; i fight the urge to change the comment, but i decited to leave it as is.
User Formfiller has two excelent links in their comment that contradicts my comment and proofs that geneticaly people are still mostly indigenous in latin america even if not culturaly.
In My research I found that you are incorrect. The two peer reviewed studies I have for you today indicate that 90% of the population of Mexico does indeed have strong genetic ties to the indigenous population of the Americas. If you need further evidence please let me know. The fact you’re being upvoted for misinformation makes me think this platform is going downhill. Furthermore, deporting people indigenous to the Americas while claiming some divine right by race( as this administration is doing) doesn’t hold up when you consider that the people they are deporting are indigenous to the Americas
Thank you. These were good reads. Especially the later one.
There were two quotes in the later one that are especially intresting.
First from the introduction:
In all statistics, around 85–95% of people identified themselves as a mixture of Amerindian and European ancestry, widely called “Mestizos” in the literature, as opposed to the autochthonous population defined by their surviving culture, language, tradition, oral history, and customs.
And another from the conclusion:
The findings confirm that the genetic impact of European conquest was small in terms of maternal lineage introgression, and the changes in population structure that followed have likely not substantially changed the ample pre-Columbian pattern of mtDNA variation in Mexico.
So basically people are more or less genetically indigenous, but culturally dont consider themself as one. This makes my head hurt, because im not qualified enough to decite which matter more, the genetics or how they percive them selfs. In any way its clear that colonism had huge effect.
I also want to point out that i did not take any stand in the matter of deportations, but if you want one, mine is that any country has a right to deport illegal aliens, but i think the way your current goverment is doing it right now is horrendeus. Just because you are illegal imigrant does not mean you dont deserve to be treated like human. Also fuck ICE. They are acting straight like natzies were.
Latina america has a heavy influence by Spain, Portuquese and France colonist. So similary like north america, while there are indigenous people, lots of them are decendents of colonizers, so you cant just compare Latinos to Native Americans.
Edit; i fight the urge to change the comment, but i decited to leave it as is. User Formfiller has two excelent links in their comment that contradicts my comment and proofs that geneticaly people are still mostly indigenous in latin america even if not culturaly.
In My research I found that you are incorrect. The two peer reviewed studies I have for you today indicate that 90% of the population of Mexico does indeed have strong genetic ties to the indigenous population of the Americas. If you need further evidence please let me know. The fact you’re being upvoted for misinformation makes me think this platform is going downhill. Furthermore, deporting people indigenous to the Americas while claiming some divine right by race( as this administration is doing) doesn’t hold up when you consider that the people they are deporting are indigenous to the Americas
https://aztec.style/are-mexicans-native-american-mexican-people-origins-truth/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8467843/
Thank you. These were good reads. Especially the later one.
There were two quotes in the later one that are especially intresting.
First from the introduction: In all statistics, around 85–95% of people identified themselves as a mixture of Amerindian and European ancestry, widely called “Mestizos” in the literature, as opposed to the autochthonous population defined by their surviving culture, language, tradition, oral history, and customs.
And another from the conclusion: The findings confirm that the genetic impact of European conquest was small in terms of maternal lineage introgression, and the changes in population structure that followed have likely not substantially changed the ample pre-Columbian pattern of mtDNA variation in Mexico.
So basically people are more or less genetically indigenous, but culturally dont consider themself as one. This makes my head hurt, because im not qualified enough to decite which matter more, the genetics or how they percive them selfs. In any way its clear that colonism had huge effect.
I also want to point out that i did not take any stand in the matter of deportations, but if you want one, mine is that any country has a right to deport illegal aliens, but i think the way your current goverment is doing it right now is horrendeus. Just because you are illegal imigrant does not mean you dont deserve to be treated like human. Also fuck ICE. They are acting straight like natzies were.