America is changing eh ?
2007-07-14 07:37:03 · 10 answers · asked by El Alakran Mexican'O'Ian 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
The myth of Aztlan can best be explained by California's Santa Barbara School District's Chicano Studies textbook, "The Mexican American Heritage" by East Los Angeles high school teacher Carlos Jimenez. On page 84 there is a redrawn map of Mexico and the United States, showing Mexico with a full one-third more territory, all of it taken back from the United States. On page 107, it says "Latinos are now realizing that the power to control Aztlan may once again be in their hands."
Shown are the "repatriated" eight or nine states including Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington. According to the school text, Mexico is supposed to regain these territories as they rightly belong to the "mythical" homeland of Aztlan. On page 86, it says "...a free-trade agreement...promises...if Mexico is to allow the U.S. to invest in Mexico...then Mexico should...be allowed to freely export...Mexican labor. Obviously this would mean a re-evaluation of the border between the two countries as we know it today." Jimenez's Aztlan myth is further amplified at MEChA club meetings held at Santa Barbara Public Schools..
The book, paid for by American tax payers, cites no references or footnotes, leaving school children totally dependent on their teacher to separate fact from opinion and political propaganda. The book teaches separatism, victimization, nationalism, completely lacks patriotism towards the United States, and promotes an open border policy. The book is 100 percent editorial -- the opinions of the author.
2007-07-14 07:39:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You're not even close with your geography of where Aztlan is. Didn't they teach you anything in school. You'll find it located in these 2 links. Map in the first one.
Cortez
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/cortez.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0426
History, Myth, and Migration in Mesoamerica
http://web.ku.edu/~hoopes/aztlan/History.htm
2007-07-15 04:34:09 · answer #2 · answered by StoneCold 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aztlan is referred only to those Southwestern States that were part of New Spain Viceroyality.
2007-07-15 15:40:57 · answer #3 · answered by Aztlantevich 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. CHiapas is the Mexican Southwest. You know the land where Mexico stole from the Native Mayans and are mistreating their inhabitants . You know the area where they are rebelling against Mexico, because the genocidal war Mexico had against the villagers their.
2007-07-14 16:15:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well there is alot of racial violence and fighting in California where mexicans have moved into what was in the past dominantly black neighborhoods.
We going to see that in chicago? then maybe new york?
And aztlan is a fictional place.
2007-07-14 14:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by sociald 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I see the messican bull is still running rampant on YA. You folks are nothing more than talk and when the time comes you best step to the plate because your first shot is the only shot you'll get and we will crush you like the sewer bugs you are.
2007-07-14 14:40:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Yep, crazy in the head. Too bad you think you'll over throw the U.S.
2007-07-16 04:28:20 · answer #7 · answered by ThatsThinkingWithUR Dipstick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about it?
Chicago is the second U.S city with largest number of Mexicans!
We all need to learn Spanish! We are a Bilingual country....
2007-07-14 14:47:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
America is vibrant and ever changing.
Aztlan is a myth.....just like Atlantis, it doesn't exist.
2007-07-14 14:51:39 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not really. Some like to think that it is but it's not.
2007-07-14 15:20:51 · answer #10 · answered by Ms.L.A. 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋