Wow. First part true...the Aztecs and other indigenous civilizations in that area were horrible. The Mayans were the worst. They reveled in torture and were experts at it.
However, the Spaniards were NOT heroes. They raped almost EVERY woman who came of age for 300 years and almost completely mixed the race into the "mestizo" category. The Spaniards were not good people and left a legacy of catholic corruption there which has left Mexico still tremendously corrupt with massive drug trafficking as a major pillar of the economy.
They must have been very busy guys.
Reminds me of the Vietnamese ritual show confessionals: "I raped 27 peasant girls every night..."
Agree with you as well.
There is always a nexus.
Cause and consequence.
Oh bullcrap. They did not rape their way through Mexico. The Christianized the savages and took wives among them and stayed. Conquistadors were brave men and did a good thing for the world.
You are both right, in my opinion-my ancestors were mostly Spaniards-but there is enough Native American DNA in the mix starting about 400-500 years ago to make us non-nobles all “mestizos”-and those ancestors chose to move to what is now W Texas and NM-which was a frontier populated by Natives-including relatives of the displaced Aztecs, their bloodthirsty Apache cousins and others-before 1800 to get away from the Spanish govt which they were terrified of...
So a lot of common people considered a wilderness full of hostile Natives a better place to come and make a living than around the elites in the “civilized” interior of Mexico-can’t really blame them-the Spaniards had this thing called “the inquisition”, and they taught their Native captives some really interesting methods of torture, too-they were no better than the Native Americans, in my opinion-the best thing my Spanish ancestors ever did was leave the Spanish Pyrenees, get passage on a ship to the new world and widen their gene pool by breeding with some Native Americans and leave the corruption and cruelty of the Spanish ruling class behind...
My ancestors were mestizos and were oppressed-now gimme my reparations-I’m sure I must be owed some$$$$...