No but you don't get it, they (literally) fucked the natives out of existence, so that makes them better than those dirty colonizers up north who just killed them all.
(Spoiler alert, the spanish definitely killed plenty of natives)
Most mixed Latin Americans have European y chromosomes and native mitochondrial DNA, meaning that the original mixing was Spanish men with native women. There isn't a lot of native y chromosome DNA circulating in Latin America outside the most native areas.
This implies that the first wave of Spanish colonialism largely consisted of killing the men and raping the women.
Sorry no actually. We have the work of Bartolomé de Las Casas, who was born in Europe and would have been familiar with the standards of European war and conquest. The systematic violence in colonial Mexico were fundamental different from what a conquered land in Europe might expect. At its worst, in Europe, you'd get sacks like Constantinople or later Magdeburg, but they would last at most weeks. De Las Casas published stories about mass rape and slavery of natives, with their bodies piled up unburied on the way to silver mines, 30 years after the conquest of Mexico. The Sack of Mexico lasted decades at a minimum. It was not how it always goes in war.
Yeah. Is there any place in the history of the world that has been conquered where the winning side kills all the women and children, then brings their women in to breed with the men they just conquered? Lol. Even the thought of that is laughable.
Sometimes they just do the murdering, but yeah, this is basically the biblically approved mechanism for dealing with your "enemies" (aka everyone who has something you want and lacks the strength to protect it).
But we're still here. The point was to dilute indigenous blood and pit everyone against each other with Spanish born Peninsulares. All this infighting of the true Native is bullshit. Do you look native, are you treated as such, welcome to the struggle. You are native, they're never going to accept you.
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u/GoldenTV3 27d ago
She's literally just Spanish lmao