jueves, 13 de octubre de 2011

THE IDENTITY

We are together for many centuries: Children, young and old. Brown, black and white. All mixed up. A commanding, and the vast majority, errands, but all mixed up: Brown, black and white. All mixing, all mixed up.
The Spanish language is spoken in over twenty countries, totaling about 300 million people. Helped us to communicate social, commercial, political, emotional, cultural and artistic. Today, our language sets a spiritual world a enrriquece universal thought, and above all, ensure the cohesion of the people it serves. It is one of the official languages, as it is the English and French.
Our language, spoken in over 20 countries worldwide. Each nation gives its own characteristics, includes voices from different meanings: native customs, clothing, flora, fauna and also the pre-Hispanic languages ​​were used there, or even speak. This is easy dde copmprender when traveling and you can hear people speaking southeast of our country, for example, or northern Veracruz Mexico or even an inhabitant of the Federal District with its very caracterìtica intonation and sound. These differences then jump, then the ear. not to mention a Chilean or an Argentine or a peninsular Barcelonès. The Spanish language is immensely beautiful and full of wealth, whose structure transferred and transformed ways of thinking to reason about other realities.
The immense Pablo Neruda, wrote in his poem:
                                                                    
LITTLE AMERICA

 When I look at howAmerica on the map I love thee: The heights of copper in your head,your breasts wheat and snow,your waist thin,throbbing fast rivers, sweethills and meadowsand in the cold southern end of your feetduplicate gold geographyLove, when I touchNot only have comemy hands your delight,but branches and earth, fruits and waterI love spring,the desert moon, chestof the wild pigeon, the stones worn smoothby the foam of the sea or riversand the thick redthe bush, where,thirst and hunger stalk.And so I extended my country receivesLittle America, in your body ...
 

The Mexica, were heirs to many other Mesoamerican cultures. were in the climax of our flowering when the Spanish arrived in the sixteenth century. Encounter of two worlds. Discoveries enrriquecerìan the overland map.
Trade routes in the hands of the Turks to the fall of Constantinople forced the Europeans to seek new paths.
Christopher Columbus, on the idea of ​​the roundness of the earth to the Catholic Monarchs proposed a project to travel to India. Left the port of Palos on August 3, 1492 with the caravels "Pinta." "La Niña" and "Santa Maria". On October 12 came to an island which he named San Salvador.
On the island was named "The Spanish" (Haiti and Santo Domingo) where a fort, leaving 40 men to office, while Columbus returned to Spain with gold, plants, exotic animals and some natives of the islands. In the port of Palos, Barcelona, ​​was received by Ferdinand and Isabella with extraordinary honors to usansa of the Roman conquerors. Everyone wanted to see those trophies of an unknown world, fantasy he had discovered.
Perhaps, our father, was the soldier Gonzalo Guerrero, a survivor of a shipwreck off the coast of Yucatan, in search of slaves, who decided to stay with the Indians in those parts. Transformed in a chief and was the father of the first Mexican mestizos.
We are a people made of legends and prophecies. Most times we think that things can change magically. The appearance of a comet in 1516, is considered a sure sign of doom and as this event coincided with some sinister phenomenon: Eclipses, earthquakes and storms, it was thought that the prophecy of the return of Quetzalcoatl had begun to be seen in the Spanish southern Mexico.
The truth is that the Indians were to read a notice stating that there was only one God and the Pope, as being superior to men, and that this, in turn, had donated the islands and mainland the Kings of Spain and who does not recognize, it would be annihilated in war against them.The Indians did not understand the language, the Spanish took them as a reason for contempt and began what they called "Just War".
The conquest of Mexico, merges two cultures: the indigenous and European. Mexico became the rule in New Spain. We spent part of Spanish history in every way. That began to consolidate the other conquest: the spiritual. Complying with the designs of the Catholic Monarchs. It was that Mercy and Franciscan friars, redeem the souls of the natives, and succeeded his conversion. Ejrcìan persecuted heretics and inquisitorial powers.
There were two republics: the Indians, their chiefs respecting and recognizing their nests. They were the ones who ruled the lives of indigenous communities. The "bossy" served as a vehicle of communication with the Spanish authorities and many of these chiefs were characterized by abuse of office.
The other republic, was that of the Spanish: separating structure, with the pretext of evangelization, the new territory. There were different governments and different legal systems. Economic activities, too, were separated.
Over time, the distance between the two communities is shortened by the greed of the Spanish to take over the land and the need for Indian food and find work in the Spanish cities: Carriers, nannies, maids, porters, cooks , craftsmen. That started the mixture and the appearance of many breeds that are multiplied with the arrival of black Mexican territory.
The Spanish are specified to accept vieeròn mongrel offspring. Then, as colonization progresses, the mestizo society grew and everything was becoming more closed and resulted, along with other economic and political independence movement of our nation.
Mestizos, we are neither one nor the other, but the identity has much to do with the way we were integrated. We are children of the change. We are the generators of the changes in our world. Those who possess the best of the two previous cultures and that can really shine again achieved a new world and a lot better.
History favors the formation of a consciousness of identity to others. The study of history gives meaning to our lives is part of a larger community.
I identify and get my identity: Popo and Ixtla. Don Goyo and the sleeping woman. I am part of a culture that is the holder of masculinity and femininity Popocatepetl of Ixtlacihuatl. Whenever I place proudly in the center of two volcanoes, a feathered serpent.I am the Captain-General Hernán Cortés with his great courage and bravery. I am Cuauhtemoc heroically supporting the torture of the burning of his feet but never deliver the gold in Mexico. That is myidentity, I identify with it and where he got all my energy to live and die with dignity at every turn.
What gives you identity?Happy Columbus Day, brothers.

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