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Now I see there is great interest from americans to know the ancestry or how the mexicans look today.
Mexican tv is not a reliable sample of the Mexican population, if you see the tv you will think all Mexicans are Nordic, however, announcements of government, for example INE strive to include in them a representative sample like real Mexican.
Mexicans do not deny it, just ignore it, this is a subject that does not interest the bulk of Mexico's population.
Most of us are aware we are a product of hundres of years of race mixing. Also, we know there are white Mexicans, indigenous Mexicans, Asian and Black Mecicans, and of course mestizos -with the endless variations in shades- that truly compose the majority of the population.
If you get to know us, you'll find out we don't deny the existence of any racial group in our country but, we don't look at those matters the same way other countries -specially, much specially the U.S.- do. Heck, just in this forum there are more threads about race that probably any other topics, and is usually always Americans who bring up this stuff over and over and over again.
So maybe instead of focusing on ones skin color, we should focus on other aspects of life. Perhaps that way the shootings, the lynchings, the hate will be gone.
It is true that our media mostly presents a Caucasian looking place, a bit far from our reality, no shame on accepting it. But -and this doesn't make it right- most of the world media does the same. Of course things could be different, of course there could be and should be much better for indigenous, Asians and blacks in Mexico, perhaps one day it will.
Most of us are aware we are a product of hundres of years of race mixing. Also, we know there are white Mexicans, indigenous Mexicans, Asian andBlack Mecicans, and of course mestizos -with the endless variations in shades- that truly compose the majority of the population.
If you get to know us, you'll find out we don't deny the existence of any racial group in our country but, we don't look at those matters the same way other countries -specially, much specially the U.S.- do. Heck, just in this forum there are more threads about race that probably any other topics, and is usually always Americans who bring up this stuff over and over and over again.
So maybe instead of focusing on ones skin color, we should focus on other aspects of life. Perhaps that way the shootings, the lynchings, the hate will be gone.
It is true that our media mostly presents a Caucasian looking place, a bit far from our reality, no shame on accepting it. But -and this doesn't make it right- most of the world media does the same. Of course things could be different, of course there could be and should be much better for indigenous, Asians andblacks in Mexico, perhaps one day it will.
Interesting that you listed BLACKS last each time you mentioned them
Great timing- interesting story that just came out about how Black American baseball players first played in Mexican leagues because they weren't allowed to play in U.S. leagues.
Prime example of how you need to get to a know a country in person, the language, the complex history, and not just read a few things online.
[url=http://remezcla.com/features/the-secret-history-of-how-mexico-pushed-baseball-toward-racial-integration/]The Untold History of Black Baseball Players in Mexico[/url]
"150 Black players came to Mexico from 1937-1946 looking for better salaries and social conditions."
30% Spanish, 60% Indigenous, 5% East Asian and 5% African
This is probably the average mexican ancestry. The pictures of mayan women you showed are probably more indigenous then spanish. Some mexicans are more white than others
55-65% European - 30-40% Inddigenous - 2-5% African - 1-2% East Asian on average, according to large scale DNA tests Ive seen
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