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Mar 20Liked by Mike Leavy

Thanks Mike, I appreciate how you repeatedly qualify the shortness of your description and at the same time, you convey a lot of information well. 🙏🏼

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Mar 20Liked by Mike Leavy

this is the stupidest thing i have ever read

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Mar 20Liked by Mike Leavy

I can see why you like Mexico so much :-) The more I learn, the more I appreciate its roots in values that I too share, such as inclusivity. Thanks again for an article that I can actually absorb in a subject (history) that I have traditionally struggled with.

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Your response

simply float away" reminds me of a saying from my Mexican upbringing, "Tablita de salvación". I bet I could float and be saved from the ocean's (life) turbulent waters from any piece of your flotsam and jetsom.

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Interesting article and fascinating difference with the inclusion / exclusion of the native population. We discussed the life of Benito Juárez in the University, but I don't think we touched on this overall cultural aspect. And certainly not the difference between how Mexico and the U.S. treated the indigenous population.

Still I wonder sometimes what the overall attitude is today. I'll never forget a conversation I had with a rather well-to-do Mexican woman one day in a plaza principal. My early days in Mexico like 12 years ago. Okay, I'll name the town: SMA. After learning I was from the states, she said: Oh, you did it right. You exterminated your Indians.

I didn't get into it with her, but I was shocked and soon left.

Thanks for the article Mike!

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Where were you, Sir, when I needed to fulfill my university History 101? I might have changed my major to history. "I wasn't born yet", you say. OK. I forgive you, then.

"Mexico is a civilization defined by the inclusion of cultures from the Americas and Europe." Sadly, I suspect the tendency may be motivated by a wish to be more European. Perhaps, evidence might be revealed when you share your "recklessly light-on-detail" story of Maximiliano y Carlota and who and why invited them to Mexico.

ps. I might borrow "The Variegated Paths" expression for the title of my memoir.

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