Get a grip. Indigenous does not equate noble or honorable. The "Bon Sauvage" is the product of "European" thought and never existed. Mexican heritage, if you are referring to the mixed race peoples, just means your umpty-ump great grand pa was murdering, raping, ne're do well from Spain.NiMexicatl wrote:
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Being of indigenous heritages (both what most of you would consider Native America as well as Mexican which in reality is more similar than most of you will care to understand) tattoos and piercings have for thousands of years been very significant traditions. Traditions that are not foreign to the place where you all live mind you. This blanket judgmentalism is idiotic and insulting. But it's no different than the general disregard I encounter almost daily from the unappreciative narrowminded. It's sad. It's enraging. But i doubt many of you will care. It has no place among those who claim to be good, decent people who are misunderstood and targeted by liberals. Just another tally in the "maybe I should just leave this forum" column.
Or are you claiming Nobility? Are you descended from the less than 1/10th of 1% of Mesoamerican people able to make that claim?
Or is the nobility from your Mexican heritage side? Do you claim Caique Ladino/Letrado descent? The evil white guys kept good records, both church and state, of noble marriages between Spanish and Indig nobilities. Do you have a state certified genealogy or family history?
Or are you descended from "Warriors"? Once again nearly impossible. It's the teeth to tail ratio. Modern industrial nations have an 8 or 9 to 1 ratio. We can't all be super secret squirrel delta rangers, someone has to change the oil and clean latrines. That ratio is only supported by modern farming and industry. Rome's legions during the late republican and imperial era's required 150-200 slaves on latifundia to support each standing legionnaire. The Toltec, Aztec, Mayan cultures never achieved even that level off efficiency.
In other words, you are just another mixed race human being, just like me. No special by understanding or insight into ancient cultures or you would know:
99.999 % of Mesoamericans lived a short, brutal and on occasion horrific life.
The majority of body modification of elites was ritual scarification, piercing, and the binding of skulls and jaws in infants. Tattooing was minor and adjunct to scarification.
We live in the State of Texas, The United States of America. Not some mythland created to provide self-esteem to those who haven't achieved anything in life other than turning good food into waste.
P.S. And your soliloquy reminds me more than a little of the character "Sin LaSalle"(portrayed by Cedric the Entertainer in the film "Be Cool")as he delivered his rant. And he was meant to be a caricature.