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**Numbiydq** · 07-26-2011, 01:06 AM

But there was something different about this tribe, the Tlaxcala, and when the music ceased and the chatter resumed, the difference became clear: They spoke exclusively Spanish.
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“Hispanic is not a race, ” said Mr. Quiroz, whose ancestors were the Quechua people, of the Central Andes. “Hispanic is not a culture. Hispanic is an invention by some people who wanted to erase the identity of indigenous communities in America.”

“We don’t believe we have to accept this identity just because we speak Spanish,” Mr. Quiroz added.

Well, I think these ideas are absolutely reasonable and fair.
In fact you don't have to go to america to find people who speaks spanish (or english, french, russian...) as mother language but reject the spanish identity/culture as imposed by foreigners.

It happens all over the world... colonialism, wars that changed frontiers, massive forced exodus and massive inmigration...

To reject an imposed identity and/or culture is the easy part of the matter.

To impose or establish the true or original identity/culture over people who don't live their original identity anymore, is the hard part. And if there's more than a original identity, things get worse quickly.

I think evo morales in bolivia has had some problems trying to bring the 'original bolivian identity' to laws and institutions of the bolivian sate.

07-26-2011, 01:06 AM	#9
Numbiydq Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 568 Senior Member	But there was something different about this tribe, the Tlaxcala, and when the music ceased and the chatter resumed, the difference became clear: They spoke exclusively Spanish. ------------ “Hispanic is not a race, ” said Mr. Quiroz, whose ancestors were the Quechua people, of the Central Andes. “Hispanic is not a culture. Hispanic is an invention by some people who wanted to erase the identity of indigenous communities in America.” “We don’t believe we have to accept this identity just because we speak Spanish,” Mr. Quiroz added. Well, I think these ideas are absolutely reasonable and fair. In fact you don't have to go to america to find people who speaks spanish (or english, french, russian...) as mother language but reject the spanish identity/culture as imposed by foreigners. It happens all over the world... colonialism, wars that changed frontiers, massive forced exodus and massive inmigration... To reject an imposed identity and/or culture is the easy part of the matter. To impose or establish the true or original identity/culture over people who don't live their original identity anymore, is the hard part. And if there's more than a original identity, things get worse quickly. I think evo morales in bolivia has had some problems trying to bring the 'original bolivian identity' to laws and institutions of the bolivian sate.
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