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[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

By the way, can anyone explain why Native Indians are actually doing better than Hispanics in school?

It's all the rage these days to claim Natives were brutally oppressed and had their way of life destroyed, but their intelligence has remained unaffected? Is it possibly a eugenic effect where the only Indians who go to school are actually serious about life, instead of being wasted somewhere on a reserve? Or are these Indians just White people who identify as 1/64th Cherokee, like Elizabeth Warren?

[–]CarlDungCrypto-fascist and eugenicist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'd say hispanics don't really have an identity of culture. Who do you look up if you are latino? If you disregard all European influences, like colonial Spain and Portugal, what are you left with?

Latinos have basically a culture of cartels and drug traffickers, and violent revolutions mixed with cronyism. They have no higher ideals or purpose in this world. Native indians on the other hand have their old ways, a system of belief, ancestry, and places of origin. They have nothing in their past they need to cut loose, unlike hispanics.

[–]VraiBleuScots Protestant, Ulster Loyalist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, it’s the classic mixed race identity crisis. Most of them can’t really identify with Spain and most of them can’t identify as Aztec/Maya/etc. So what’s left, like you said, 200 years of failed states, revolution & cronyism. There’s no precedent for achieving something higher.

Maybe as time passes they’ll be able to develop something more positive.