#i see a lot of these people be like call urself indigenous instead of latine and its like

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I say this like periodically but god it really bothers me when Chicanos/Mexican Americans do the whole reclamation thing where culture becomes a costume and Nahuatl culture in particular becomes this sort of "one size fits all" thing when many of us aren't from Nahuatl backgrounds? And to do so without any fucking acknowledgement of how yes, despite our indigenous roots, many of us of mixed race hold a particular privilege over Indigenous peoples of Mexico because Spanish colonialism still affects those who have actively lived in their respective cultures for generations, is still shitty. If you bring that up you get a lot of but but buts from these types. Like all that reclamation really means very little when we can't hold ourselves accountable let alone discuss our part in Mexico's continued oppression of its Indigenous peoples; it's a truth we have to contend with, not brush off in that journey.