Ed Calderon

Something interesting happened with them.

Hernan Cortes and the Conquista and the Spanish are all perfect villains in history, I guess.

People...

it's it's it's perfect man if you kind of look at it from the outside perspective colonial invasion but when you go but when you can look at it i mean they were they were just getting off their own conquest uh they were conquested by the moors uh so they were getting free from that so they were already mixed in there they're brown people on that boat it's not blonde haired white people coming on that boat there's already brown people on that boat coming um

Hernan Cortes is very much painted as a villain in this story.

But when you kind of look at the way that the conquest took place in Mexico versus other parts of the world, there was a lot of brutality.

There was a lot of ignorance, a lot of religious nonsense on both sides because the Aztecs also did a lot of horrible things.

But in the end, I think Mexico went the route of mestizaje.

We decided to mix.

Like the Spanish decided to take wives among the natives.

They decided to give honorary titles to the people that helped fight the Aztecs to help with the conquest of what wasn't Mexico.

It was just this valley at that time.

And it gave birth to this culture, this mixed culture that very much hates parts of itself, which is a weird part of Mexican culture.

Because you ask anybody in Mexico, a lot of people, I went to Mexican school, so I got a lot of this education.

of how the evil Spanish came in and wiped out all of the natives, you know, or most of the natives.

When in reality, you know, a lot of us in Mexico have mixed blood.

Most of us have mixed blood.

There's a lot of Spanish blood in us.

So we were very much taught to hate ourselves in a way.

and i think that that has something to do with a lot of the psychology and the culture in mexico there's a whole part of our history and ourselves that we hate but it's essential like we we say like the president of mexico the past president the current president are all about uh sending the the the king of spain letters to for to have them apologize for the conquista and it's funny like some of the bloggers from spain will respond like you're asking that in spanish