Why Indigenous People Want You to Stop Labeling Them as Latino | Odilia Romero | TEDxDelthorneWomen
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- In this fascinating and necessary Talk, Odilia Romero shares why the Latino narrative is oppressive for Indigenous communities.
Through her nonprofit CIELO, listen to how Odilia fights for language rights and provides interpretation services to Indigenous communities across the United States.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxDelthorneWomen, where x = independently organized TED event.
With our theme, Collective Liberation, TEDxDelthorneWomen centers the voices that are reimagining a new and just society through a liberatory lens. Not just from a space of dismantling tired, old concepts and fighting oppressive views, but implanting fresh seeds rooted in new imaginings, curiosity and right relationship.
TEDxDelthorneWomen was produced, curated and hosted by Sonali Fiske, a Leadership Mentor to BIPoC and the host of the radio talkshow, Revolutionary Voices.
As a fierce Zapotec leader, Odilia Romero is the co-founder of Comunidades Indigenas en Liderazgo (CIELO), advocating for Indigenous migrant rights in Los Angeles & throughout California. She is also an independent interpreter of Zapotec, Spanish, and English for Indigenous communities & her organizing knowledge & experience are held in high regard, with multiple academic publications, awards, & lectures in universities across the United States, including John Hopkins, USC, and UCLA.
Ms. Romero's work has also been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Vogue and Democracy Now. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Let’s embrace our Native American/indigenous heritage.
Nah this is only for indigenous people
Native Americans stand with any Mexican/Latino who embraces their native ancestry
Separate yourself from the protesters. The war crime is on american indian. We are tribal people by law of custom not indigenous. Trust me native and indigenous is a new term. The english and spanish common amd civils laws fear greek terms like tribal.
Why don't you embrace your Spaniard heritage who built your modern day civilization. With The other civilization you would still be living in the stone age.
@@javiervega1065 because the Spaniards weren't that great when it came to fighting. Even the Germans in the 1930s wrote books about Spaniards being at the bottom of the European hierarchy
I love that she is very proud of her heritage. I applaud you queen.
@@bull419 Any real man that has knowledgeable woman in their life refer to their women as queens. In yours possibly a 🤴. So sad😞
Drug dealers
@@Ava_Mackenzie Drug user
Now go kiss queens ring beta boy
Odilia - thank you for your clarity and truth. So much gratitude to you for your story and voice. ❤🎉
My grandparents are Pipils from Nahuizalco, preach sister and much love to all my indigenous brothers and sisters from a Salvadorian 👋🇸🇻
my husband is pipil! ❤
@@saffron1996 That's awesome! Much love sister viva Kuskatan ✊🇸🇻❤
I saw your comment about the nicarao people, love my Pipil neighbors from your Nicarao kin
@@KingMacuilmiquiztli Nahua Pipils and Nahua Nicarao we are both descendants of the Toltecs, somos hermanos somos familia 🇸🇻❤🇳🇮
Nahua Senyelistli!
I’m mestiza my dad is an Italian who’s family immigrated to Mexico in the 60s/50s and my mom is hñähñu chichimeca/ Otomi I’ve always been more close to my indigenous roots because I grew up with my moms family I’m very proud to say I’m Native American, but it’s really sad seeing how growing up in Latin America most mestizos or full indigenous people don’t claim their indigenous heritage they view indigenous people as as a minority I remember my mom making me wear our traditional clothing to school and braids and the kids would call me “India” but I learned to stand up for myself and say “si si soy y que 🪶💯” regarding my skin color which is quite pale in comparison to my mothers my name, my culture, my traditions, That I am the closest too is indigenous American 🪶🪶
Everyone who refer to themselves as Mestizo are actually more indigenous, but don"t want to be because they are brained washed. Take pride in your native heritage. Your dad is a true Latino as the French, Hispanics, Romanians. I Notice the Chinese went to school keeping their traditions and eating their food at school. Teach your children the same.
@@JosephMarquez-pj9dpSoy mestizo mi piel es blanca y tengo ascendencia africana.
Eliminar que somos mestizos es una tontería, además en mi país te llaman indigena si tenés un aspecto indigena aunque tengas algo de mestizaje.
Sorry about your experience at school. It's something native/indigenous go through everyday and it's getting worse for us. Blessings to you Native
❤️🪶💪🏾
I thought Meztiso only referred to the people at the time of the conquest between the Spanish and indigenous, not new Europeans from the 1950’s.
I've met an elder couple that are, indigenous people from, near the boarder to Belize.
They didn't speak Spanish.
They spoke their natural indigenous language and, a very little english.
They couldn't read english very well.
The man asked me to, read a label out loud to him.
He understood english from hearing it, more then he could, reading it.
So I read the food item label, to them.
And, it was the product they were looking for.
He thanked me, in his first language, then again, in english.
He too said, they are not Mexican
I can not remember, what clan he said, they came from.
Indigenous... such a superior sounding term. Almost god like.
It is sad that Native Americans are the ones having the hardest time moving from one country to another within the Americas. The borders made by others stop us, and allow everybody else through.
Don't forget, we are also "illegals" even though our ancestors have been living here for so long before European colonization. If anything, Europeans and whites should be considered illegal immigrants and deported back! See how they like it!
The Jay treaty provides for freedom of movement between Indeginious peoples of Canada and the United States . This treaty should be extended to Mexico and beyond for all indeginious Americans
Where you’d get that nonsense?
There are tribes that are located on both sides of the USA/Mexican border and they move back and forth freely.
I don’t understand your point.
mexicans are not native. they are the spanish and latin derives from the roman empire.
native americans are obviously are from this land before any of these groups but why are we talking about firsts all the time... is it cause nationalists are all trying to play a game... yeh.
I work for a handicraft company that sells products from all over the world. Right now a lot of branches are showing off whatever was made in Latin America on social media with captions claiming "Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!" ...Problem is, half of the Latin American products they're associating with "Hispanic" are actually made by indigenous peoples - Highland Maya women from Guatemala, Quechua and Aymara-speaking people from Peru, and Kichwa-speaking people from Ecuador. It's really annoying.
you're absolutely right. Probably is something related to the crazy 'political correctness' that is ruining US and western countries, they have this urge to label and define anything and anyone, but trying to be correct they reveal how arrogant they are
No it's not
Da'an'zho 100 100% native american apache of mexico is me and we are not asian we are not white were indigenous native americans of the americas and that will NEVER CHANGE 💯🕵🏾♀️👏🏾💥🤜🏾🤛🏾😉 and Mexicans their all native american we all need to forgive our enemies they can't label when they dont even know their own roots
Don't forget that you aren't Sub-Saharan African as well.
These Afro-centrist are crazy as the Euro-centrist.
I’m Chiricahua Apache and my family registered themselves as Latino instead of native in the census. I’m trying to reclaim our heritage and so are so many of my other family members.
@@Raccon_Detective.Agree. At least the Euro-centrists don't want anything to do with or have any kind of affiliation with Natives but the Afro-centrists are the ones trying to colonize my history, culture, heritage
@@Raccon_Detective.Agree
Very cool. Use the term american indian. That is the war crime term they used. If you ever take the republic to court you have no sovereignty using the term native american. Trust. Good day
Much Love My Sister 🪶
-Lenca Tribe 🇭🇳
Your more Spaniard than anything else
@@javiervega1065 we need haters like you 👏😂😂
As a Latino I do not want to be labeled Indigenous! The feeling is mutual.
I also refuse to identify as Hispanic/ Latino!
Your better reconnect and find your tribes if you haven't, but regardless do not ever contribute to demographic genocide!
@@mex8984not if we're Brazilian soo...
Me too…50% indigenous ✊
@@Luci_S AHH I we've tried asking older ppl in the family but they don't know the tribes..
I perfer to be name (Milinated Master Lord Of this American Continent) 😊
I want to visit Oaxaca and also the afro Mexican community there
No such thing there not native 😂
Stop believing everything on CZcams.
@@Ismael818
The Spanish and Portuguese had a lot of Sub-Sub-Saharan African slaves.
Latin America and the Carribean is where a lot of the African slaves bought by the Europeans went to.
@@danielchuta7362
The Spanish and Portuguese had a lot of Sub-Sub-Saharan African slaves.
Latin America and the Carribean is where a lot of the African slaves bought by the Europeans went to.
Then the Sub-Saharan slaves mixed with the Europeans and natives.
A lot of hispanic and Latinos have African ancestry because of this.
There is no such thing as afro mexican or afro latin we got to stop this nonsense it's further dividing us as people
I am mixed race with indigenous and Spanish. I embrace both.
I saw a Native American say " these people are not immigrants ( Mexicans) these are Native people coming home " 🇺🇸👍
I’m nicaraguan-american and my great grandma was a pure nawat nicarao (nahua) native. She had red skin, like a native american, and its documented in the chronicles of conquistadors francisco cordoba and gil gonzalez davila describing the nawat nicarao people as “rojos” and their children "rojitos" (reds/little reds in spanish). I have 40% native american on my dna test (60% european), proud of my nahua heritage 💪🇳🇮
Good for you! this is the start of inner liberation and unification with all indegenous people.
@@JosephMarquez-pj9dp my grandpa and great grandparents were from a nicarao town in rivas called "nahuapan" (originally was nahuacalpan before it was shortened). Older generations of his family spoke nawat but the language died with them in the late 1800s, around the same time that nawat went extinct in nicaragua. The language may be dead, but like you said as long as the heritage is embraced, the pride in oneself lasts forever. Thank you friend 🙏
The Nicarao are a subgroup of the Pipils which descend from the Toltecs. Salvadorians and Nicaraguans are descendants of Toltecs, bless you brother from your Salvadorian brethren 🇸🇻🤝🇳🇮
They painted there skin with red paint as it was tradition, body paint ing. Brown is beautiful 🟤
No one has red skin, unless they're sunburned or paint themselves. It's more likely that these chronicles were written with some poetic license. Either the people that they were describing painted themselves red as a form of intimidation like war paint or they may have been so war like that "red" was used to describe them. Like a bull when it see red or when a person "sees" red when they are in a rage. History is written by the winners and they don't always tell that history truthfully. I wouldn't those DNA tests too seriously. There have been examples of identical twins taking them and getting completely different results.
I was separated from my family and raised white, I am working to reclaim my indigenous identity. I am so proud of my culture and my people and I just can’t simply leave that behind. It’s in my blood. It’s in my DNA. We should all be so proud. I don’t have a single drop of Spanish blood and that means resistance. We did not bow. I love this woman.
You were separated from your family and raised European American. Are you working to reclaim your brown identity? If colors are not good enough for one group, then they are not good enough for any. Racism hurts.
What are you going to tell the blacks that are claiming to be the real indigenous of the Americas? 😂
@@allwillberevealed777 I hear dat! They is Kanz!!!
Do a dna test 😊
Culture is NOT in DNA
Thank u....very interesting. No matter how far apart we are, we breath the same air.....
Yes, yes, and YES! We hear you. We champion you. And we thank you for sharing your truth with us.
you are delusional if you think mexicans are native.
So relatable. My grandma speaks Nawakayáno, and I grew up speaking it and still using it to this day. Although I have spanish speaking family who don't know anything about our culture and language, I still feel somewhat discriminated. My grandma said we are Yanoshinenatsóte. Although I speak Spanish and English. I wouldn't want to refer to myself as Latino or Hispanic.
Learn you indigenous language and encourage your relatives to speak it.
i can’t find anything about this on google. Seems to be a rare tribe. Please try to not kill your own culture
You are latin because you speak a latin-language, it has nothing to do with your race or ethnicity.
Sorry, Spain was great and civilized the native Americans.
Yes i can relate, when i was brought to las vegas as a kid i could not eat fast food i would starve myself until i got home and eat fry eggs and beans
Very smart lady 😘her English is perfect.She’s very proud of her heritage, my respects 🙏
I am very indigenous looking but just don’t think about it,I just go with the flow.
The real Latinos are Italians.
Latinos/Ladinos but yes!
Pretty much. Latin comes from Italy and Italian (along with Sardinian) is the closest language to it.
nope, latino comes from the shortening of latinamerican
No they aren't
@@ash3972And where does the latin from latin America come from 😂
Odilia Romero, hablas del corazón. Viva Los Indígenas:)
YES!!!! 🫵🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽♥️♥️♥️🪶🪶 Thank you!!
Padiuxi! I studied there back in the early nineties, what a great experience. I am planning to visit Zoogocho in the next few years.
Preach 🙌🏽✨️ I have been saying this for years! Finally someone understands 🎉
Great! you continued to preach the truth. We all have to in order to educate the masses of our people. You never gave up. Keep doing it!.
Ohhh, I love her! ❤
I don't speak Spanish. I'm Indigenous and White. That's it.
Mayans civilization ....red Indians belong from Ancient Indian civilization... you can't never seen any words like Mayan except of Hindu scriptures...
Greetings from India. I'm doing some research on the percentage of Native Americans in the USA and I was also quite intrigued by the fact that Native American people coming into the US from Latin America are not considered native in the US. The European rulers of the USA have put you all into a spiral of ethnicities, languages, nationalities and what not so that you all don't get a peek at the big picture. :D
When I heard you speak on this video, I understood why it is that difficult for ordinary Native Americans from Mexico, Central and South America to get that big picture. Just in case you're wondering what on earth is that "big picture" I'm referring to, then here's what I meant - going by the US classification of a Native American, even people who consider themselves Mestizos can be Native American. You'd know it better than me that there are scores of federally accepted Native Americans with varying percentages of European blood flowing in their veins.
Therefore, all of you Mestizos and pure Native Americans based in the USA and originating in Mexico, Central America and South America could easily comprise at least two-thirds of the "Latino" population in the US. That would be in the range of 20% of the US population and that's a massive vote base.
Yes, the beautiful things you spoke about your native culture is extremely important for your identity and individuality but you need to get your priorities right as a community - the Native American community. Look at the African-American or for that matter, the composite white or Caucasian community.
I feel your top priority is the recognition of the native American community in the US originating in Mexico, Central America and South America as Native Americans. If the laws on date appear to be a stiff barrier on the way to fulfill this priority then you need your own folks to set aside every other priority behind this one and get the message across loud and clear to those who come asking for your votes in both the federal and state level elections as well as your local county level elections.
I come from a country where our native traditions have helped us survive nearly fourteen centuries of unrelenting invasions first by Islamic sultanates and then by the same European colonial imperialists and we know a thing or two about how they operate. :D They follow a simple principle - divide and rule! They played on our diversity and now they are playing on yours.
So, get every Native American on board and get that recognition first. Everything else will follow thereafter.
Thanks for your words of wisdom and support for my people (full native american) When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, I remember hearing stories from Native elders and their thoughts on the mexicans/hispanics and they used to say a day is gonna come where quite a few of them are going to rediscover who they are as Native/indigenous people. Even today, I can say I'm seeing more mexicans embracing their indigenous heritage. But yes that divide and conquer strategy is what they use. But it won't last long. Your country is a perfect example of being brutally colonized by the British Empire to being an independent nation, a very powerful world power on top of that. Blessings to yours.
I am just an indigenous as well and didn't learn so much about my origin language. All I can acknowledge I come from otomi . I am being discriminated all the time .
I’m nuu savi and I feel you brother
Nahau, Pueblo and Navajo here! You're still related to the northern native americans!
You are probably mestiza,you don’t really look like a Native American
@@HYDROCARBON_XD
Based on her profile and look, I would say she does look predominantly native/indigenous.
Don"t worry about it! Just because you can"t speak the language or know your traditions your still native. Blacks don"t know anything about their tribe but that dosen"t stop them to indentify as African because they are.!
Indigenous Resistance for our existence ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽🦅🦅🦅🦅
Cry me a river beta boy
@@javiervega1065 whatever that is lmao
@@chaitea4701 you
@@javiervega1065 k
Great job!
Low key I need this loop longer
I love this woman.
She is Zapotec, that is the longest lived people of Mexico. They were around and traded with the mother people the Olmacs, and were a strong people when the Spanish arrived. I think Tres Zapotes? was the highest city in elevation of all Meso America...
I'm sure she probably has Spanish ancestry in her aswell
I know her, never met her, but I know her. I, also lived with my Grandparents and Great Grama, I was born in Arizona, but I knew I was Native. My Dad's side is Yaqui, they never called us children, they called us bookis, Yaqui for young ones. Were very true to the Day of the Dead. I was just Mexican for a long time. Started school, went to Hispanic,Latina, Mexican American,Chicana, I like Chicana bc of the movement. Chicanos r kinda like the new tribe of the South West. My Mom's family is Huachelo from Jalisco. This is where I get a lot of Mexican history, my Tata (grandpa), was full Huachelo. They used to talk to me a lot about the Natives. The first time I went to Mexico with my grandparents, my Tata said, holding earth in his hand, "this is the earth of our seed, there is no other beginning and no end". He took us to the river where his tribe still washed outside. I didn't realize their lessons, till I got older. I'm no spring chicken. I identified as Native for the first time on the last census. It felt right.
It’s mostly because I don’t speak Spanish, but we don’t hear enough from indigenous south americans. Both North and South American countries today are a result of European colonisation, but they seem to show very different attitudes towards the fact.
They feel insult to call themselves native or indigenous. This is how they discriminate Indigenous community
@@ksrawat88 no its because we're our own race and we acknowledge our Spanish ancestry just as much.
@@javiervega1065 and that how much you are colonized… even Azeteca called themselves as Spanish in Mexico because they are so discriminated
@@ksrawat88 full blooded Aztecs don't even exist in mexico anymore, you really aren't very bright are you?
@@javiervega1065 well mr. Brightest, stop bs if you don’t know anything, what is full blood Azteca btw.? Mayan in Chiapas are not full blood.? Tarumara in sirra de Tarumara are not full blood.. and only reason Mexican says their descendants are Spanish because they want doesn’t want them to be identified as native which they believe is insult. Specially whitexican who influence Mexican.
I am Mexican but also Native American from Mexico but I don`t know my native side or culture but I can relate with Odilia 100% and I stand with her in what she has said Blessing my Amiga.
@@viewer9058why is she speaking English?
Native Americans which are most belongs from mayan civilization.. Actually they are belong from..indian ...alias red Indian. ..
beautiful! latina/hispanic is reductive and diminishing. You can't reduce thousands of our ancestor's history inside a simplistic label. I am a proud Mankeme Chorotega descendant.
Latin is an Indo-European language that originated in the Latium region of central Italy. It was the language of ancient Rome and was used throughout the Roman Empire for communication, administration, and literature.
Wrong Latin was created by the moors in Spain
I’ve always hated that word Latino and Hispanic
I've always embraced it
@@javiervega1065 if ur of European descent there’s nothing wrong with that
Hi from Russia! Those woman in red jacket and with curly hair who called the speaker "uneducated indian" should have had the answer " judging by your norms of morality youre lack of education too"!!! Well to my opinion native americans looks very different from spanish, I would recognise them if i visit America one day.
You have my support. Skydancer Whitewolf.
This video is specifically for people within what is now Latin America who are connected Indigenous people, not Latinos in general btw. She’s solely speaking for the Indigenous community.
Latin comes from Italy and Hispanic is one of the regions of the Roman/Rome divisions. Central to South America is not Latin which is suitable for American territory and that is due to colonialism, it is inappropriate to be called Latin America.
@@raflykato1789Hispanic is someone speaks Spanish, Latino is someone from Latin America. Regardless of your history lesson that’s what it is now. But I agree with with the original comment, if an indigenous person never assimilated to Latino/Hispanic culture then they are not Latino/Hispanic
@@LatAm13 So everyone who speaks English should be called "Germanics" since English is a German-based language? Hispanic/Latino are more than what you're describing - they're purposeful terms of erasure and cultural genocide. My Nahua family embraces and includes - they don't divide and exclude. Only Italians are Latinos and Spanish are Hispanic.
too bad, we dont care and we will call ourselves indigenous
@@Planet_Perfume good for you?
14:52 😂 that got me dying LMAO, interesting fact: Frida Kahlo profits off of indigenous people regalia
@@MissCleo24- That means nothing, she had Indigenous maids. She was not connected to her “Indigenous side” and Indigenous people are not homogenous, she was profiting off of Tehuana Zapotec women.
@@MissCleo24 SHE WASN'T INDIGENOUS
We should just honestly just be called South Americans like how people from Africa are called Africans, People from Asia are called Asians etc. (granted there are different parts for example there’s East Asia, South Africa etc) Never understood why they refer to people living there as “Latino” just because we speak latin Romance languages as if it’s exclusive to this continent when there’s clearly other countries in the world that speak Spanish and French. So that label of “Latino America” on a continent that’s should’ve just been strictly called South America and its people “South American” makes no sense to me tbh
Mexico is in North America.
@@jinh817says who? The colonizers
@@JoseSanchez-sd7ctPues sí, los colonizadores llamaron al continente América, así que somos americanos.
@@AlejandroDaniel531tu diceds soy Americano o soy mexicanos? Colombiano? Etc Los de Los estados unidos dicen se llaman americanos hasta gente de otros continentes les llaman haci
Colonization brought us together by language but we're native to the American continent like no other race ...
I’m Mexican and on the race questions on any forms I alway put Indigenous American. I am mestizo but since I can’t choose two things sometimes, I would like to be represented in the Indigenous American race. I am white but do not look totally European. I look like both European and Indigenous American so it’s very complicated for me on those questioner’s about race.
If you are brown an Originally from north or south America you are native to the land
For one, don't use the word mestizo. You're using the wrong word to describe what you are.
Mestizo is an old word used to describe a select caste system in the 1500s+. Unless you're still living in the 1500s and in that caste system, then go right ahead.
Very true my wise friend!@@11Mikuiztli
@@11Mikuiztlipeople can call themselves whatever they want.
@@1KingFisher they sure can... but doesn't mean it's true or legitimate.
I liked your arousing speech Odelia. Shtio su” l from san Dionisio ocotepec, Oax.,México.
❤️👏🏻
European colonists in the USA (and other North and South American countries) have stolen the identity of Americans for themselves, along with the land, and have sought to undermine or deny the claims and rights of indigenous peoples to exist within the same space. Americans refer to all indigenous peoples from former Spanish and Portuguese conquests as Latinos/-as because the majority are indigenous Americans, but to recognize that would be to recognize that they have a greater right to live in the USA (or Canada) than European colonists. The ancestors of Indigenous people in Central American isthmus, South America and the Caribbean all migrated South from what is now the USA and Canada after crossing the Bering Straits from Eurasia.
Not nessacarily that many central americans come from The USA also the people who landed in Central America and South America and the Caribbean would be indigenous to the area
@@MissCleo24 So you are saying the Natives were always in the Americas and never migrated from anywhere else ever?
Yup
They have Asian DNA and the Mongolian spot, that all Asiatics are born with and disappears at about 9 years of age. Criminal forensic science reinforces that. All Indigenous people From Mexico, Central and South America are part of the Asiatic family.@@MissCleo24
This lady has been discriminated against by Mexican/Latinos. Some Americans may refer to her as Latina because they are uninformed
I'm sorry girl, and I support your people no matter what.
I was one of those native southern children who was used in the 80s to test mental health drugs.
They had me on as many as 6 at a time for years.
They took advantage of my mother's ignorance and wrecked my childhood.
BUT, a lot of so called Latin persons, solely because Spanish is their primary language, are in fact Indigenous.
Thank u sister . I'm not the only one
I hear you my sister
Es algo difícil, el origen de mis abuelos es obvio pero desconocido y su idioma no es el de su color pero yo heredé esos genes indígenas y no se donde caigo en todo esto, no tengo tribu más que mis vecinos
AS A LATINO I WOULD LOVE TO BE CALLED NATIVE AMERICAN IT FITS US WAY MORE I SIMPLY ADORE IT AS IT IS WHAT WE ARE AND UNLIKE LATINX IT ISNT AKWARD TO SAY
@Eddie MORALES I'm Native American & racists whites always call me Mexican & telll me to go back to Mexico, as if they think every last Native American went extinct. I wish too that Whites would just call all indigenous ppl of America, Native Americans.
Latino's should stand up & demand to be called native amerricans, even though many are just part Indians, but so are many native ameircans just part Indian. tell white people that your descendants of ancient indigenous people of America
As a Mayan, I support this idea fully
@@stormy-le6pb
Tell the so called white supremacists to get back on their boat and go back to Europe!
@Katina Draper
How do you define half breed? I keep seeing this term thrown around a lot and I don't think people understand what it means.
You know I can appreciate and understand your feelings and thoughts. But what we all have to be careful to understand is that our differences and separation does not also cause reverse discrimination to what you term as the white man or even the European. That is very complicated. If you were to study history in depth, anyone, you would understand this. The very Spanish that came and colonized were themselves technically mestizo and more. For Spaniards their ancestry is mixed with the Native Iberians and then add about another 10-12 colonizations and mixing. So the old saying is that history repeats iteself. Spaniards were the only Europeans that even mixed with the indians, the other Europeans kept to themselves. That is why the Northern European, Central European went into Spain to clean out what they deemed as inpure blood lines. They wanted to make Iberia into what they wanted. They did not succeed. All cultures that are deep in tradition and have not mixed retain their pride, whether you are Native to the land of Mexico or an Iberan or Guanche that is native to Spain. Pride is Pride. We need to make sure though our pride does not become a form of Ethnocentrism or we do not fully know what other cultures went thru and we only repeat false tales or leyendas negras..that is not good either.
My question is :
What about meztizo term in Mexico and other latin-speaking american countries?
Is that word accurate for native population if they lack latino/european ancestry?
Why Filipinos have not been called Latinos too but Asians instead? 🤔🤔
1) Mestizo means Spanish mixed with indigenous, if you don't have Spanish blood you're not a Mestizo. The issue with this is you can't tell just by looking at someone and know their genetics. 2) Filipinos are not part of Latinoamericanos as they're not in the America's. 3) the weird thing about Mestizos that doesn't make sense is on average Mexicans tend to have 2-5% African ancestry which by the definition of Mestizo would exclude them from being true Mestizos. The Spanish had a wild caste system...
Everyone is Indigenous somewhere!
😴
nope
Not uncomfortable..you are so interesting..I want to learn more... sorry for the things you have been going through...
Native blood from Sinaloa here…
Wait wait, but when Mexico own Cali and New Mexico there were tribes there and when Americans came they claim that land and they called those ppl native Americans but if you were connected to Mexico what would that make those tribes…
U S. Natives know the difference who's native and who's not and most Mexicans know too my coworkers knew I was was more Mexicano than other mestizos my grandmother was full blood native Mexican from Chapala Jalisco coca nahuas tarascan
Respect
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Different people perceive people differently. It happens to me too.
I've seen this in my predominantly "Latino" neighborhood many times. I'm able to recognize an indigenous person from south of the border almost right away, but they're often lumped in with the mainstream. Happy she's bringing this to light.
Well fhe problem is that Latinos ARE indigenous as we have Indigenous roots and usually 25% or more. This is enough to be considered to live on a reservation in the states. The problem comes is when the Spanish erased the language and culture from the indigenous side. Hence why people identify as Mexican as they do not know where their indigenous blood came from.
bringing to light the problem of people not being able to differentiate non indigenous mexicans from indigenous ones? seems pretty nitpicky to me
@@seanwhite201 who cares aren't all of us equals?
@@maggie6100 uhh because these people get so offended when you accidently call them mexican like this woman is here and want to make a big deal out of everything instead of kindly correcting someone and even if they keep accidently calling you mexican, who cares, are you really gonna get all worked up over that
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You have the right to keep your culture , but class struggle unites all workers against the bourgeois class.
My DNA test
Indigenous America Central-Honduras and Belize-47%
Indigenous Americas- Bolivia & Peru-4%
Indigenous Americas- Panama & Costa Rica- 3%😊
Indigenous Americas- Yucatan peninsula-1%
Spain- 24%
Cameroon congo& Western bantu- 6%
Senegal-3%
Mali-3%
Baltics-2%
Nigeria, east Central 1%
Levant 1%
Cyprus-1%
That is my DNA test. Since as long as I can remember i never knew how to identify so i just always checked the other box, the law marks me down as a white male. My skin is dark brown. My family doesn't speak about their history, they are ashamed of it and I'm just trying to learn anything I can. My family is from Honduras but they don't ever mention anything about that nor speak about it
These DNA tests are misleading and inaccurate.
I agree, prejudice is unethical & immoral.
So when native Americans were slaughtering each other before any European arrived, what do you call that?
It’s the American educational system we learned from when we were little the concept of classification we classify was good, and we classify was bad we classified by numbers if it was up to some people, we are classified by hair, color, and eye color the concept that were simply human people doesn’t release in the matter, and the fact that were taught this was normal. It’s just plain wrong. We all have origins of the same place on the sea. Some stayed on the equator somewhere north, someone south, and as we lived in those atmospheres we slowly evolved and we lead religion divide our peoples. We all forgot where we came from. We all forgot that we are simply one people and those people of certain generations truly believe that we are of different peoples specially those in North America particularly the United States they wondered across his land they decided they wanted it so they made some BS about manifest destiny and took the land is a thing out of the question I came across are Latinos from the North American continent, indigenous to the North American continent which is a die question you can’t answer your own question with an answer their native Americans, Mexico was not created until the early 1800s before that it was land where Indian tribes lived closer to the equator the white ancestors at the time played everybody favorite game. Divide and conquer our Mexicans native Americans don’t make me repeat myself.
She looks just like Grandma, shes also from Oaxaca.
I’m mestizo. Who cares what people think or say . We are the majority in America. That’s all that matters
Mind your own business. This indigenous people problems Gooback.
@@sacrificedogculture I’ll mind my own business when you mind your own casino .
Majority of mestizos and Latin American nations love to take orders from the United States. This will be your downfall.
I knew right away she was from Mexico because of her huipil and her Mazahua earrings.
This video pertains to full indigenous Mexicans that live and thrive in indigenous communities.
I think thats there mission errase our culture
We the Americans people the real natives of this land .
Says who
Emblem of the Americas 1798
My padrino is from Guatemala and he claims Mexica. He speaks Pipil, Nahua and Mayan and very little Spanish. He also did a sage burning and called Chiletik ( red) in Pipil because no word for red beard alone I guess. The only thing Spanish about him is his thin sharp pointed beard. I'm White btw.
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What most people consider Latino are Mestizos And Pardos usually they have mixed looks and sounds to the majority of them without make up or eyeliner yeah.
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As a student, I was very much into this thinking of us vs them... of some kind of centennial struggle for indigenous rights. As I have grown older, I respect how different people want to be acknowledged and understood. However, it's best to accept life is not fair... and the whole point is to look inward to improve ourselves. Learn a trade, learn to code, start a business... fail and try again. There is no agenda to keep indigenous people down... victim mentality is dangerous. Why care if people look at you and think you are mexican? Or latina? Just ignore and focus on your goals.
Indigenous people are through out the Americas. A person born and raised in Mexico is a Mexican🤔 However their native language may not be Spanish. I kept telling my friend that she is indigenous but she didn't want to hear it. One time she called me an African American and I showed her a picture of my mom/dad 😳. I told her that my native language was not English.
That is so true the Puerto Rican slash t a i n o Indian said and this is a while back that there is no such word as Latino that is a made-up word and some do not like to be described as that they are not Latino my spiritual advisor many years ago who was female who is Indian from Mexico and if she is trained in the Lakota way if she goes to Sundance she does know the language the songs and it was an honor to have met her and known her
Ask if you can be her butler
I'm indigenous and I'm Spanish too. You'd have us deny our own existence. We are both.
Exactly. One civilization founded and continues to innovate modern civilization and the other one would set you back to living in the stone age.
AZTEK American here
There aren't any Aztecs left and if you want to pretend to be one atleast spell it correctly.
Might as well talk of the truth without denial. Erase all. Is what you said by there will be no more of that air. Honor one and only correct. I am agreed. Truths of truths. Defended.
I’m labeled that too
Im mexican i identify as Hispanic
I was born in oaxaca matias romero but my grandparents are from Puebla and my DNA I have 88% indigenous americas 3%irish , 3%french, 1% german, 1%sardinia , and 2-2% parts of africa , but no Spanish 😂
You know those tests aren't accurate.
@javiervega1065 I’m with you this test is just a base , That’s why I like to talk to my grandparents what they actually know about their parents and they told me that their grandparents where Europeans like irish that came to puebla with no money and needed to work hard to get a stable life, a funny fact that one of my brothers has good beard genetics with some parts of red hair in beard and head which I didn’t have .
@javiervega1065 did you know the French brought slaves from Africa to Mexico
How about the fight to revive our indigeneity...many of us suffer because our tribes our destroyed as an entity and people don't want to acknowledge us mixed race natives as natives, especially in america from northern natives
A bit of history Mexico was called "New Spain" before it was Mexico, as it was "discovered" by the Spanish. The mixing of Spanish and Indian (native) cultures goes way back to 1942ish because Spanish men married and bred with Indian women. Mexican is a Nationality if your born and from Mexico. Mexican is also an ethnicity if you were raised in the Mexican culture. If you were to take DNA blood tests on all Hispanic people in the USA, Mexico, South America, and elsewhere you would find that most people are a mixture of Native American (Indian) and European. I was raised in the Mexican culture, but when I was older I tested my DNA and found out I was 53% Native American and 35% Spanish and a mixture of other races too like: Jewish, Italian, and 1% African. DNA blood testing is the only way to definitively know 100% if you are Native American (which can be broken down by regions on a map) or what ever mixture of races you are. DNA blood testing should be the gold standard in the USA regarding Native American status. So many people say they are Native American and don't have any native American blood at all. US laws need to be updated to require DNA blood testing to prove Native American (Indian) status because the current blood quantum standard is not a real test at all, and does not prove any type Native American (Indian) status.
Side note: My Ancestry DNA test did not say I was Mexican because Mexican is not a race. My DNA make up is a mixture of races mostly Native American from the Texas area and Spanish.
Actually those tests are fake so is your little stump speech
And I also don’t want to be labeled Latinx when that don’t work at all
Mexico is indigenous land these white colonizers don't belong here.
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Since when?
However most Americans view anyone "native american" as somebody from the N. American tribes and not Mexico or other central American countries
Ironic because Mexico and South America is where a lot of native americans are and mixed natives.
Btw Mexico is apart of North America not South America.
Mexico is in North America. Central America begins after mexico. Look at a map
@wa-bu3ke central America is a political term, it's technically north America too
Mexico is not in central america
@ash3972 geographically it is, politically it isn't
i dont know most latinos have indigenous looks like her or like me (my family came from peru) and i don't feel bothered at all to be called latino, most latinos are mestizos : both european and indigenous blood, thats how we are and there is nothing wrong with it.
I was gna guess you native and or Venezuelan
She is a native of Mexico
She’s being honest and telling you what it really is. This isn’t a joke
it is a joke that mexicans are trying to lie and say they are native. they arent. they know that.
@@nyx6508not indigenous to unided states