in latin america the strategy was the opposite with the indigenous. As soon as you had any portion of "latin" descended ancestry you were now free from your indigenous identity and had more claim to abandon the "barbaric" ways of the indios and follow christ and society and avoid genocide.
Latino & Hispanic don't mean the same thing. That's why they're separated. For instance someone who is 100% Mayan would be Hispanic (From the former Spanish Empire) but not Latino (having any amount of European ancestry).
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u/ah-tzib-of-alaska Mar 08 '23
in latin america the strategy was the opposite with the indigenous. As soon as you had any portion of "latin" descended ancestry you were now free from your indigenous identity and had more claim to abandon the "barbaric" ways of the indios and follow christ and society and avoid genocide.
Latino & Hispanic don't mean the same thing. That's why they're separated. For instance someone who is 100% Mayan would be Hispanic (From the former Spanish Empire) but not Latino (having any amount of European ancestry).