Racism In Mexican Culture

Many of the readings seem racist and exaggerate the negative aspects of the Mexican culture by naming them as weak, violent and uncivilized. However; some other readings give a better perspective of the Mexican culture. I liked Vasconcelos’ concept of mestizos, the new “cosmic race” which he described as the virtues of Indians and Spanish. The Spanish colonization created a “better” race by mixing and combining all four bloodlines (black, white, Indian and Mongol) giving born to a new universal race. Vasconcelos seems alittle racist when he opposes to the “pure race” and spotlight the Mexican and latin people. The cost of courage in Aztec Society got me hooked by the poem fragment “Proud of itself is the city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Here no