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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7333510, member: 110504&quot;][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], on a still more anecdotal basis, the impression I get is that, at least since some point in the last century, Mexicans have been more vocally reasserting their native (thank you, lower-case) heritage.&nbsp; I&#039;ll never forget visiting one Chicano kid who I knew in grade school, who I remember as having a distinctly Mayan-looking profile.&nbsp; His mom had a put a cloth banner of the Virgin of Guadeloupe directly above the sofa in the living room.&nbsp; It covered a lot of wall space.&nbsp; That much of the whole point of the Virgin of Guadeloupe is that she was indigenous.&nbsp; The indigenous thread was always there; it&#039;s merely been getting more assertive over the last generation or so.</p><p>Sort of evoking what&#039;s happened, ironically or not, in Spain over the same, (sorry) no less vague interval.&nbsp; People there are reconnecting with their Moorish heritage.&nbsp; You can get bits of it over news sources like the BBC.&nbsp; But if you go to Spanish ebay, and look at what&#039;s happening to prices for Andalusian coins, it&#039;s like, Look No Further.&nbsp; ...Another travel anecdote, from people I knew a little earlier than your experience, involved their habit of spending part of the summer in Portugal.&nbsp; The wife had this translation of an informal part of the rite of baptism there: the priest would say something like, &#039;Your gave me your son a Moor, and I give him back to you a Christian.&#039;&nbsp; ...I still like that.&nbsp; :&lt;}&nbsp; ...It&#039;s like, the False Dichotomy siren is going, &#039;Whirr, Whirr....&#039;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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