MEXICO WITHOUT LIES

CHAPTER 1 Was Spanish civilization superior to that of Indians?

   In a conference I attended many years ago, I learned that a national culture is the conjunction of the way of life and the traditions of a specific social group. And that all national cultures are made up of subcultures.

I kept such knowledge in my memory of useless things until almost four years ago, when I heard that in a state in northern México, the local Congress was considering amending its Constitution to allow a person who speaks only his native language to be elected to the congress.

I was astonished, I didn't know that in Mexico there were communities so isolated from the rest of the country.

I consulted the Internet and I was ashamed of my ignorance. Those cases are frequent.

Filled with guilt I preyed on any opportunity I had to comment that it was right to grant a place in the congress to anyone who legitimately represented their voters and that all native languages should be consider legal. I also said, that it was good to review this problem, although that should have happened two hundred years ago, when Mexicans gained their independence from Spain.

I could not leave out this experience in my memory, not because of my social conscience or my compassion for the natives who are not understood nor respected, despite they having been freed by the War of Independence, the Revolution, various government plans and so many vote-seekers, but because I felt uncomfortable when I realized my lack of knowledge of what was happening.

Staggered by such feeling I decided to improve my knowledge of México and began to gather all the available information.

That task gave rise to this work.

What I present here is not intended to convince, or to worship or condemn people or ideologies, it is only a personal investigation that I share willingly.

All you are about to read have been said many times from long ago, yet never has been consider as a part of the official history of which it differs greatly.

No doubt this paper will create discomfort in some sectors of Mexican society, mainly among academy professors specialized in history and political studies, who have declared that the conquest gave the Natives a better moral, religious and cultural perspective, and that the War of Independence ended with slavery, the Revolution freed people from dictatorships, and the Constitution of 1917 cancelled the exploitation of peasants and workers.

On the other hand, if my writings give you a new vision of Mexico, I can not help but express my sincere gratitude for making this work worthwhile.

LIVING SUBCULTURES OF MÉXICO

In 1521 at the fall of México-Tenochtitlan four subcultures began to emerge, each with a peculiar social behavior.

Native Post-Conquest

Conquerors

Defeated

Politicians

At the beginning every subculture was represented by groups differentiated by their dress, accent and intonation when they spoke, where they lived, and by the color of their skin.

Five centuries later those differences faded and now the majority of the population is similar. All the profiles were mixed to give birth to the multipolar personality of most Mexicans.

Today there are only two subcultures with real physical presence, that of the Native Post-Conquest and that of the Politicians.

Native Post-Conquest subcultures can be found in many scattered villages in the Country, and the subculture of Politicians is now known as the Political Class.