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A 3 page essay that examines 2 texts and their historical perspective on Mexican American experience. Ethnocentrism is defined as the tendency to evaluate all other groups of people according to the values, standards and cultural traditions of one's own group. In other words, ethnocentrism connotes the idea that the way a particular society acts, believes, worships, and lives is the one "right" way and all others are perceived as "pagan," "primitive," or simply "wrong." Racism and bigotry find their roots in ethnocentrism and while racism is acknowledged in contemporary Western society as wrong, the roots of ethnocentrism are much harder to eradicate. This is shown by the scholarship of Rodolfo Acuna and Miguel Leon-Portillo and their accounts of classical indigenous and early mesoamerican history. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the idea that the way a particular society acts, believes, worships, and lives is the one "right" way and all others are perceived as "pagan," "primitive," or simply "wrong."
Racism and bigotry find their roots in ethnocentrism and while racism is acknowledged in contemporary Western society as wrong, the roots of ethnocentrism are much harder to eradicate. This is
shown by the scholarship of Rodolfo Acuna and Miguel Leon-Portillo and their accounts of classical indigenous and early mesoamerican history. Columbus Day is celebrated in the US as a
national holiday. On the 500th anniversary of Columbus "discovering" America, celebrations were held throughout American mainstream culture. In his text Broken Speaks, Leon-Portillo offers a different perspective, the perspective of
the indigenous people of Central America who realized that the coming of Europeans was catastrophic to their way of life. The documents presented in this text primarily relate the events
that began a few years after the arrival of the Spaniards on the east coast of Mexico (Leon-Portillo 3). Collectively, these texts present a chronological narrative of the Mexican
conquest, which details the devastating--and genocidal--nature of European conquest over native American populations. In 1992, a group of Native Americans demonstrated the ethnocentric nature of how the European conquest of
the Western Hemisphere is generally perceived. These Native Americans journeyed to Europe and found there populations that did not share their religion, beliefs, dress, customs or idea. Therefore, they declared
Europe uninhabited and claimed in the name of the Iroquois nation. Acuna shows how this ethnocentrism, and its associated racism, persisted into the contemporary era and how the principles
of liberty and justice that the United States is suppose to uphold had little, or nothing, to do with the manner in which American troops interacted with the Mexican people
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