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Multicultural Mexico: Colonial New Spain

16 Monday May 2016

Posted by Victor H. Garza 高山 in Culture

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From 1521 to 1808 New Spain truly was a “Melting Pot” (which is a metaphor of a heterogeneous society becoming a homogenous one). During the 20th Century we Mexicans were taught in school that society in New Spain was made up of Spaniards (born in Spain), Criollos (Spanish people born in the Americas), Indians (Native Indigenous Mexicans) and Mestizos (a mixture of a Spaniard and an Indian). Today, in the 21st Century, Mexican people are starting to be aware and recognize the important African roots found within our people and culture, specially in the southern states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Veracruz. There was also a significant racial and cultural influence coming from Asia (through the Manila Galleon that linked the Mexican port of Acapulco with the Philippines). It is also important to remember that people who came from Spain were quite diverse as well (Catalans, Basques, Visigoths, Celts, Moors, etc.) and our Indians belonged to an even higher amount of ethnic groups! This process known in Mexico as “Mestizaje” (Miscegenation) truly reflects a “Melting Pot” where different races have been mixing during the last 300 years becoming the “tanned” society that Mexico is today. I am sure that if any Mexican does a DNA test, genes from the Americas, Africa, Asia and/or Europe will show up (just as my DNA test reflected this)!

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Desde 1521 a 1808 la Nueva España realmente fue un “Crisol de Razas”. Durante el Siglo XX a los mexicanos se nos enseñó en la escuela que la sociedad novohispana estaba compuesta por españoles peninsulares, criollos (españoles nacidos en América), indígenas y mestizos (la mezcla entre españoles e indígenas). Hoy en día, en pleno Siglo XXI los mexicanos estamos conscientes de que hubo y sigue habiendo una importante influencia africana, que además de manifestarse racialmente en algunos estados de la república como Guerrero, Oaxaca y Veracruz, también está presente en la cultura, especialmente en la música y la danza. También hubo una presencia asiática, racial y culturalmente hablando, que llegó a través de “La Nao de China” (la pelea de gallos es un ejemplo cultural de ello). Hay que recordar que los españoles en sí son una mezcla racial tremenda que se dio entre celtas, moros, visigodos, catalanes, vascos, etc. y como vimos en el artículo pasado los indígenas también son parte de una grandísima diversidad de etnias diferentes. Este gran proceso de “mestizaje” que se ha dado durante casi 300 años realmente ha formado un “Crisol de Razas” que conforman la población mexicana moderna y que seguramente se vería reflejado en nuestros genes al someternos a un examen de ADN. En mi caso así lo fue donde aparecieron genes de América, África, Asia y Europa.

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