Interculturalism

A few years ago began a debate at international level, the issue was that each country should recognize its indigenous peoples. For example, in countries like Canada (in the 70's) had the idea that indigenous communities had to be bilingual, that is, indigenous communities speak their mother language and too the French.

I think that this kind of ideology is fascist type; it is a kind of acculturation in which the Canadians wanted to impose their language, their traditions and their life.

In Mexico, indigenous peoples have suffered from the dominion of the Aztecs, Spanish, Frenchs, American and now suffer the domain of the called Mexicans. It took over 500 years to start to respect and recognize them. Why we want to remove their culture? If they are more Mexican than we do.

A culture is not respected for their food, or its architectural buildings, or their clothes, or their crafts, etc. a culture must be respected by the simple fact of existing. The fact that a group is recognized as a minority doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t have human rights.

We must remember that I exist because another exists.