Hence we see and more clearly the situation of the US which is a country based on no biological , blood, land connection between the land and its inhabitors. The last to live on the land called America now in that way were the native americans. However, in Mexico and all the way down South, because there was a mixing with the natives and not an annihilation, there is a native connection yet! In fact, more so because of its mixture with European blood. Like there is now in a person an awareness that this land America is his by ancestry and by design. Curious how becoming part of a larger context, i.e a whole planet of continents and countries and cultures makes people proud of who they are!! It is sort of a surreal and beautiful mixture.
Perhaps it is the best mixture. Definitely , the point of view and attitude of a colonizer is certainly not necessarily the best for the land. There is a loss of sanctity toward it since it is not the land of its Ancestors. You know?
For a USA er inhabitor the reality is that Europe will always be more sparkling in its anitquity and its supposed class and all the institutions and systems that were brought over from there to here. That is how the US was created isn´t it? pretty much ignoring any wisdom of the inhabitors of centuries here. Audaciously thinking EVERYTHING they brought was good, and EVERYTHING they had was bad. A little absurd in retrospect. Yet I would like to change the view on how to ersolve thi sissue friomt he regular one. Teh regular one says, oh, the natives ar eogne. Tehoens left are on reservations and teh taxpayers or the Us governemten provied es a certain amount of moentary recompense.
On this land, yet with the basis that Europe is better. I wonder in htese years if it is good to remain with that framework? I wonder how it affects our intra-continental relations? (Yes! As in, interactions with Mexico, Panama, Ecaudor) Considering everyone else here (except Canada, which is similar tothe US in this view) is basically somehow biologically connected to the land and does not throw its devotions or loyalty to another continent´s needs? (wealth, aggrandizement, growth, etc)? How much of this tuggin toward European pomp is still in the works for America? How can countries like Mexico and Chile and Panama who have more roots here and want to develop here operate with this attitude still under way?
Isn´t it time for a ReIndependence? REvisting Independence. A New independence perhaps even better and more radical. In honor of Martin Luther King day today, I state his saying , [When you are right , you cannot be too radical, when you are wrong , you cannot be too conserative.¨I think what he means is that when you feel you are right, you shouldn´t flail. And so this aspect of independence is such that it must happen and soon. Latin americna countries ( starting perhaps not even calling themselvs latin America anymore. Is Latin really what differentiates? Not exactly, as the English language also has Latin influence and it is from Europe. I would say indigenous America or something more appropriate as to what truly distinguishes each area of America. The next important reason for perhaps not using latin america is because it once again gives recognition to the Spanish way of life introduced here as well as values, etc. It doesn´t give any recognition or credit to what the native side did to the composition of the Mexican cultural person today. What structure became created as time passed and these two continents created a new race? What values of the American native remained here in this home of Mexico and what did the Spanish influence?
How does analysis of this structure help the rest of the world, yes the entire world , get a better grip on the cotntext of the globe? umm fairly obvious. Its called filling in the blanks. If we are to conceive of the globe as one, doesn´t that mean we should be more and more informed as to its history, its composition etc.?
And returring to the concept of social class...isn´t it that something organic is why in order to have more class or awareness of relations (similar meaning) we need to be connected? no that doesn´t makle sense in that order, yet it is true. We are wanting to be more connected in an aware way. Life has thrown us together, but it´s like, it makes us nervous if we do it without a concept of order. Just the way anyone would feel if suddenly you had to share the same restaurant, or school, or more so, a home! The term ugly american would not exist if the europeans who came here would finally have the decency to assimilate more . I get tired of how immigrants who come to ¨america¨ need to learn English. It´s funny how the social group that came to not even relate to anything of this land, demands that others who come here, learn their foreign language, English, and learn their foreign values, from Europe.
Isn´t it time for a ReIndependence? REvisting Independence. A New independence perhaps even better and more radical. In honor of Martin Luther King day today, I state his saying , [When you are right , you cannot be too radical, when you are wrong , you cannot be too conserative.¨I think what he means is that when you feel you are right, you shouldn´t flail. And so this aspect of independence is such that it must happen and soon. Latin americna countries ( starting perhaps not even calling themselvs latin America anymore. Is Latin really what differentiates? Not exactly, as the English language also has Latin influence and it is from Europe. I would say indigenous America or something more appropriate as to what truly distinguishes each area of America. The next important reason for perhaps not using latin america is because it once again gives recognition to the Spanish way of life introduced here as well as values, etc. It doesn´t give any recognition or credit to what the native side did to the composition of the Mexican cultural person today. What structure became created as time passed and these two continents created a new race? What values of the American native remained here in this home of Mexico and what did the Spanish influence?
How does analysis of this structure help the rest of the world, yes the entire world , get a better grip on the cotntext of the globe? umm fairly obvious. Its called filling in the blanks. If we are to conceive of the globe as one, doesn´t that mean we should be more and more informed as to its history, its composition etc.?
And returring to the concept of social class...isn´t it that something organic is why in order to have more class or awareness of relations (similar meaning) we need to be connected? no that doesn´t makle sense in that order, yet it is true. We are wanting to be more connected in an aware way. Life has thrown us together, but it´s like, it makes us nervous if we do it without a concept of order. Just the way anyone would feel if suddenly you had to share the same restaurant, or school, or more so, a home! The term ugly american would not exist if the europeans who came here would finally have the decency to assimilate more . I get tired of how immigrants who come to ¨america¨ need to learn English. It´s funny how the social group that came to not even relate to anything of this land, demands that others who come here, learn their foreign language, English, and learn their foreign values, from Europe.
OK, I agree, that while that may sound extreme, it does frame the situation differently than we have been talking about it.
Very importantly, how would this affect the state of mind mexicans and all others native to the americas have ? How would it feel to have people say, wow! you exist, AND you exist not as ïmmigrant¨just like someone from China in the US, but as a Native! wow. How contextually real. How real for a USA er to realize that! Mexicans would finally get a huge grudge off their back. And be able to live a reality they have to keep under wraps. Because the Europeans are here . oooo whoa. So what? Now , like 500 years later, can´t we be a littel more lax about letting the natives be like, native here? You know like, the wars for possesion of land are kind of over. The US wants to act all cool and sophisticated to the world, like we are so human, and so aware, and ..oh how can others be so barbaric?? Yet here at home, Europeans don´t (or didn´t and don´t feel the need to repair)have the civility to treat the continent and its natives like a home, because at the beginning they didn´t. Ever hear of cowboys and Indians.
Very importantly, how would this affect the state of mind mexicans and all others native to the americas have ? How would it feel to have people say, wow! you exist, AND you exist not as ïmmigrant¨just like someone from China in the US, but as a Native! wow. How contextually real. How real for a USA er to realize that! Mexicans would finally get a huge grudge off their back. And be able to live a reality they have to keep under wraps. Because the Europeans are here . oooo whoa. So what? Now , like 500 years later, can´t we be a littel more lax about letting the natives be like, native here? You know like, the wars for possesion of land are kind of over. The US wants to act all cool and sophisticated to the world, like we are so human, and so aware, and ..oh how can others be so barbaric?? Yet here at home, Europeans don´t (or didn´t and don´t feel the need to repair)have the civility to treat the continent and its natives like a home, because at the beginning they didn´t. Ever hear of cowboys and Indians.
Just review a bit of USA foreign policy to this continent and its countries. Not a good dose for making a safe home,. If we are worried about how arabs and muslims have earned a dislike for us, and how that is dangerous for our security, we hsodul also learn how the natives of America in the form of current day Mexicans and Bolivians am Venezuelans, have also accumulated a dislike for the reason of no respect for the people of this continent.
Having this discussion soso necessary!! if we got to any bookstore in Mexico we can find multiopple books explainging hte hsitory of mexico , the differnt perceptions of how life and politics and everything should be here. Economics, Yes people look up to the US. and most americans leave it at that. But they fail to take it to the next level, the one that is organic and real. People don´t only like you. They have a mixture of feelings, especially when it is something as complicated as a entire country . Especially when it goes back to an invasion, a total change of lifestyle. And it isn´t weird like it is in the US.
Here the native lifestyle is still obvious in some areas and it trickels into cities. MAisd ofnte ocmes form town dt ow work ithe city. th native way of licf e is in soem lvel intgrated . Euroepans take advice adn intuition adnknowedge of hte naturte hrer form htem. Tha is hwy mexio is compse dos diffeltney. ndthe fuight fo rtht eright sof the indigenous is afight tha tdoens´t take plce in the US. theus this goce sit s differnt sene of time inwhidh it existe. it as if its essense of time says. europe tiem is mor eimrpotnat.
One more thing, wiht allhtis moevement toward organic, and green... I htink this issue is relevant. Why? Because peoepl tend to care for and respect aplace that has historical significance to them. I am always amazed at how inthe US peopel jsut waste water, electricity, everything natural. We know the history of drilling adn what not as well. Did anyone know that in Mexico the idea of wasting water is horribel? Since the 80´s they have ahd telvision commercials about the necessity to conseve wter by turning off the faucet whiel showefin etc? did you know in Mexico Whale fishing is illegal
