None of these articles are written by actual Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, or other latinxs (who are all underrepresented in media as it is).
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Look at the buildings that were destroyed in Mexico City *and* the buildings that weren't: Catholic churches damaged. Aztec pyramids intact.
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So many white writers are pointing out that Mexico City was built on soft soil. But they fail to mention that colonization made it that way.
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"Mexico City is like building on Jello!" they write. How did it get that way? Bc Europeans destroyed a lake like they destroyed a people.
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Writing about earthquakes/soft soil/Mexico City without explicitly writing about colonization is a second erasure, a legacy of colonization.
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When your subtext is that Mexicans are dumb/silly for building in Mexico City, you're reifying the violence of colonization.
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*Fellow writers, and white ones especially: please don't steal my thread to write a new article as if you knew this all along. Thank you.
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Don't forget the false notion that the “natives'” souls had to be saved by Christianity. Destruction/falsification of culture ensued.
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Actually, when the conquistadors arrived weren't the Aztecs into human sacrifice? They are now a 2nd World country and rising.
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