/lit/ - Literature

>>16919202
>that doesn't seem like a culture but a weird hybrid raped by colonization
>>16919221
>Faustian man killed Mesoamerican man while it was in the crib.

Mesoamerican man is alive and well. Mexico, along with Guatemala and some other central american states exists in a particular condition entirely unlike the rest of latin america (except perhaps Bolivia).

This is Darcy Ribeiro's map of the americas. In blue are "transplanted peoples", places where the culture and temperament of the society is a result of transplanted european peoples.

in red are hybrid societies ("new peoples"), but the point i want to make is about the countries marked in yellow, so-called "testimony peoples", countries wherein the greater part of society has inherited the societal temperament of the original indigenous culture.

mexico is south africa. you have a transplanted upper class (remember: this isn't a question of genetics, it is a cultural-temperament issue) and a hybrid urban middle class. but the overwhelming portion of the lower class, which isn't strictly urban, remains overwhelmingly tied to the temperament of the mesoamerican man.

if you spend any time in rural mexico, it's clear as day. hybrid mexican culture (as can be seen in the north of the country) is extroverted, for instance, whereas the mesoamerican temperament is suspicious and introverted.

it is suppressed but the culture continues existing in an ossified state.

t. spent a lot of time in mexico, guatemala and south america.