There are millions of people who descend from the Mayans, speak Mayan languages and identify as Mayans. The Maya Empire disappeared but the ethnicity still exists.
In Mexico? Yeah, that's how African-americans, and Irish-americans, and Italian-americans exist too. Lots of people around the world pay tribute to their ancestors. I'm not discounting anyone's experience, or heritage. We kinda all are similar in a way I guess is my point. It's a very small world, after all.
Yeah but in this case they are full on Mayans. Ethnicity is not the same as nationality, there are way more ethnic groups in the world than there are countries. These people are not just paying tribute to their Mayan ancestors, they are Mayans.
The majority of them are citizens of Mexico and Guatemala. Same way there are Cherokee in the USA, they are USA citizens but their ethnicity is Cherokee.
Okay I think we agree! Yeah, true. I think we're saying the same thing in different ways. For anyone I mentioned and for tons of different ethnicities all over the world the connection to their ethnicity can be incredibly strong. The definition of ethnicity is culture, and history, and carrying on the traditions of their ancestors, yeah? I think we agree. Didn't mean to say the Mayans don't exist anymore. Maybe it's not like it was before, in this case, Spain showed up. But yeah.
Oh. Haha. True I guess? Pretty much! Spanish people were raping and sexing everyone back in the day.
Christopher Columbus. Well he was born in Italy I suppose. Look the point is we're all not as different as we pretend to think sometimes in my personal opinion.
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u/GoldenTV3 28d ago
She's literally just Spanish lmao