the Germans had amazing IQ’s. Good stock. Stock from the failed Aztec empire is not “good.”
Someone needs to clue in AOC that anywhere in the world except the leftist insane asylums in the U.S., she would be considered white.
Most of the Mexican population is mestizo, many of whom are predominately of European descent. The Mexican upper classes are very heavily white, of conquistador descent.
But Mexico is much more than just the Central Valley. The remote areas and especially the highlands remained heavily native. But most of those people weren’t Aztec. They were the peoples the Aztecs sacrificed on the pyramids. Most of them fought with the Spanish to overthrow the hated Aztec overlord. The conquistadors were a very small fraction of the armies that defeated the Aztecs. The non-Aztec city states did most of the fighting, killing and dying. And when Tenochtitlan fell, they did their best to treat the Aztecs the way the Romans, in the end, treated the Carthaginians. Some of the Spanish accounts of the sack expressed shock and horror at how their allies butchered the Aztecs. And the Spanish were pretty tough hombres by European standards.
Modern Mexico’s national myth around the Aztecs is as bizarre as the most lunatic fringe of the Woke DEI crowd.
At the time of what the Spanish — who glorified their own roles in hindsight — came to call “the conquest of Mexico,” the Spanish were too few in number to occupy and rule the place. Cortes managed to play dealmaker and kingmaker, setting himself up as the leader of an anti-Aztec regional alliance.
When Tenochtitlan was sacked, the native city states continued much as before, only now sending their tribute to the Spanish, not the Aztecs. But they otherwise ruled themselves. They probably didn’t initially perceive the Spanish as a long-term threat; they had no real idea about the power back across the sea, of which Cortes’ force was only a tiny landing party. The Spanish certainly didn’t have enough men to fan out, occupy and govern the country. And the only change the Spanish made initially to native religions was that the Spanish banned human sacrifice.
What no one anticipated was the disease wave, which simply erased most of the native population and opened the way for large scale immigration and resettlement by Spaniards. The same thing happened, of course, in North America. The Pilgrims saw the epidemic plagues that were wiping out the local Indians as they were happening. They were quite clear about it — “God hath sent forth a plague” — but they had no idea what actually caused it (in terms of material causes, as opposed to God’s will). And they had no idea that the same catastrophe was leapfrogging from tribe to tribe across the continent, most well before the first European explorers reached a region. There were a few hints: what the very first Spanish and French explorers up and down the Mississippi saw had very largely vanished by the time the next explorers arrived. Some of the early fur trappers described seeing villages that they had visited a year or two or three earlier on their trip out being full of corpses on their return. But the idea that 90 percent of the population had been annihilated in a few decades never occurred to them.
But anyhow, most of the Mexicans aren’t Aztecs. They are the descendants of the Spanish, and descendants of the peoples who had escaped massacre, capture and ritual sacrifice by the Aztecs. I.e., they are the descendants of the people who destroyed the Aztecs.