/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>31751131
Cirno has to do a lot of "hands-on" work to keep her job

>>21411387
I think you are overestimating just how little primary written records of them are left. The major source for what we know about them wasn't even written by them. You can't actively destroy what isn't even there in the first place; that was taken care of by the conquistadors, remember? Unless you mean their monuments. Ironically, a lot of the remaining artifacts (statues, pyramids, carvings, etc.) have undergone some measure of defacement by modern Mexicans, who apparently don't care enough about their indigenous ancestry to protect it. It's leading to more sites being closed off or restricted to the public.
The other funny thing (or perhaps sad, depending on your point of view) about all this is that the Mayans were, by all accounts, excellent at keeping written records of their dealings among themselves and their neighboring competitors (Aztecs) as well as their own cultural history , and we would have had an excellent source to go off of had these records not been destroyed. Hell, maybe Mexico as a whole wouldn't be in the state it is in now, and might've risen to prominence. They might as well have been their own historians, but now we will never really know.
>fat hags
Interesting theory I heard about this involved the diet of the natives. Something along the lines of their bodies not being accustomed to the intensely rich diet of European nations, so the Spaniards introducing their foods and customs (and later, globalization) contributed to the now common problem of chronic disease and obesity in Mexico today. Doesn't explain why Mexicans are almost universally all ugly by their 30s though.

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