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To: Psalm 144
" ... that Latinos need to arm themselves for war,” .... to take back the lands of the Southwest that were stolen from our Mexican ancestors." .... Article

It amuses me that these poseurs express themselves in Spanish rather than Nahuatl. .... Psalm 144

Exactly. They are not "Latinos". They are "Mexicans". A true "Hispano" or "Latino" visitor in Mexico gets a lot of whining about "how the European Spaniards conquered our land".

In Spanish-speaking countries, "Hispano" (from the Roman province of Hispania) means "relating to Spain itself".

Hispania and "Hispano" are to Spain as Britannia and "British" are to Britain.

In Spanish-speaking countries, "Latino" is a general term that includes all speakers of all Latin based languages. So, the term also includes the French, the Italians, the Portuguese, the Brazilians, etc.

At least the Mexican activists who drew up this poster got it correctly:

The irony of the entire Aztlan ideology is that the descendents of the Mayans and the Aztecs did not originally conquer what is now Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona from the native tribes. The European Spaniards did.

If there is any ancestral claim to what is now the American Southwest, that claim belongs to the descendants of the local Native American tribes and not to the descendants of the Mexican tribes from Central Mexico or the Yucatan.

71 posted on 08/30/2011 10:14:35 AM PDT by Polybius (Defeating Obama is Priority Number One)
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To: Polybius

Now “Latina” means something else entirely. Just do a google.com search for that word ~ it does not exactly show you elderly Mexican ladies from the village.


171 posted on 08/30/2011 2:59:55 PM PDT by muawiyah
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