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The amount of population in Mexico that identifies as indigenous is closer to 20% than 80%. Mexico is mostly a mestizo country, an amalgamation of Mesoamerican and European ancestry brought together under chaotic circumstances. A clash of two worlds from which we never fully recovered.

I love The Mission movie. When I was in my teens, that was one of the two movies that made me consider the possibility of becoming a Jesuit priest.

The other one was The Exorcist >:)

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Good conversation. What he mentioned at the beginning about 'restaurants that anchor communities' got me thinking. I am going to write about that. I grew up surrounded by that kind of restaurants. My grandpa had a Bodega/Cafe/Bar that it was pretty much like that. The kind of places that people could take their time and get to know others who were there, that they wouldn't have known if not for that place. Unfortunately that is getting lost. As a cook I never worked in that kind of place but that's where I would go after work.

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I agree with Tobias Wolff stating that the worst kind of anger stems from shame and self-loathing, and this is prevalent in many conflicted individuals… I don’t doubt that Hitler was going through some of these mental processes but his self-loathing and hatred towards minority ethnic groups (including Jews) doesn’t stem from him being half-Jewish because he isn’t half Jewish.

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Well, it seems to be an open question. I'd heard that his mother was Jewish, but that appears to be incorrect. A DNA study seems to suggest that there is reason to believe he may well have had Jewish ancestry though:

"In the decades since Adolf Hitler’s death, the Nazi leader’s ancestry has been a subject of rampant speculation and intense controversy. Some have suggested that his father, Alois, born to an unwed woman named Maria Schickelgruber, was the illegitimate child of Leopold Frankenberger, a young Jewish man whose family employed her as a maid. (She subsequently married Johann Georg Hiedler–later spelled “Hitler”–whose surname her son adopted.) Others have claimed that Alois’ biological father was also the grandfather of Hitler’s mother, Klara Pözl, making Adolf the product of an incestuous marriage.

To unravel the mystery of the Fuhrer’s roots, the Belgian journalist Jean-Paul Mulders teamed up with Marc Vermeeren, a historian who has written extensively about Hitler and his ancestors. The duo collected saliva samples from 39 of the infamous dictator’s living relatives, including a great-nephew, Alexander Stuart-Houston, who lives in New York, and an Austrian cousin identified only as “Norbert H.” Tests were then conducted to reveal the samples’ principal haplogroups, which are sets of chromosomes that geneticists use to define specific populations.

Writing in the Flemish-language magazine Knack, Mulders reported that the relatives’ most dominant haplogroup, known as E1b1b, is rare in Western Europeans but common among North Africans, and particularly the Berber tribes of Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia. It is also one of the major founding lineages of the Jewish population, present in 18 to 20 percent of Ashkenazi Jews and 8.6 to 30 percent of Sephardic Jews. In other words, Hitler’s family tree may have included Jewish and African ancestors."

https://www.history.com/news/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-had-jewish-and-african-ancestors

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Sounds very speculative… it would be very poetic if he was half-Jewish in the most tragic sense, but it seems like people are clutching at straws for the sake of a narrative.

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