the levels of fact in all the
educational levels from primary to
postgraduate
there is always one thing that worries me
when the courses start when I
stop in front of the classroom and finally by
first time
I look at my students, they always talk to
voices that the teacher is upset that
by sequences more by consequence is
bad will be bad and this really
it worries me
it is really due to a problem
physical that I have all of you the
nature or god want
He gave them a pair of eyebrows
to me he only gave me one and then
you when you get upset you can put together
the eyebrow I always have it I tell them
this because of what I’m going to talk about
possibly many do not like it very much
I do not make a scolding I’m not upset
vials explain the matter and possibly
do not like it very much because we are going to talk
of our being
let’s talk about our self – ology
being Mexican is Yucatecan but that is
a problem that moves to all
Latin America
I am a historian and my work is in
reality thumb in the past
between the documents between
the books trying to find
evidences that allow building a
story to explain to explain
The reality that we are living is
fascinating because they are so many
many nights staying up late sitting
in front of a computer as if it were
an ouija where I can communicate with
dead the dead speak and the dead
they make themselves present and tell us their
stories tell us their stories and
so we can build our yesterday is
give them a use in the reality that
we have to live that we do the
historians and the subject that I’m going to
to talk about that is a complicated issue we are going to
address very important issues
the identity the identity of man
Latin American man’s identity
Mexican
the identity of the Yucatecan there is no
there is a group society nation that can
work so that the gears
perfectly do a blunting not
It can work if you do not have a
identity well sustained an identity
well basified an identity that
allow the rooting to generate something that
it is increasingly difficult to find what
it is the love for the terroir the love for
the homeland the love for our
similar for our Latino brothers
for our Mexican brothers can not
have a good cohesion and a good
functioning if the identity and that’s why
let’s go back to the story because
the only way to explain what
we are is looking at what we have been
we have no other option to show us
actually in today without combining the
verbs in preterite
the only way we can actually get to
understand us
so as a good historian I’m going to
tell a story because the
historians tell stories to that
we are dedicated and it is a story that
you know perfectly well
because they have studied it safely
since elementary school is a story that
begins with two worlds one world or
European and the Mesoamerican world none
better than another
two worlds that simply have the
circumstance of not having been found
never a fabulous Mesoamerican culture
with very great knowledge with a
spectacular development with kings and
palaces and the European world also with
a great development with kings and palaces
and with their each with their
own technologies features
more less technologies and one day by
Fate issues are found and
They are found on beaches where the
Mesoamerican world looks for now
come a ship its big sails and without
doubt is impacted I had never seen
something like that but on the other hand the world
European also was impressed with what
that looks already shade when finding big
cities and even mention those in
books of the time that thought that
they were cities of gold for their beauty they
but the meeting was not
simple
the meeting was extremely violent unite
controlled or cultural where two
civilizations collide to death of a
very violent way some pence
they even say we can talk and
genocides something extremely violent and
as in any war, someone has to
win and won the European world
the Spaniards got off their boats
they entered with their horses their arms their
swords his armor and they ran into
the indigenous whom they submitted in that
context of war something happened that we
marked forever to this day
we are marked and that is called
miscegenation of the union of that Spanish
the mestizo was born with the indigenous
but this union was not simple this
union was given in a context even of
violation of a suit where the
Spanish as the winner arrives and submits
the indigenous in an illegitimate way
illegally and the product is the
mestizo and there walks the mestizo child
in the context of the first colony of
the first years of the colony looking
the stage and the stage is this
the figure of his father Victor
Spanish dressed in his armor with his
swords riding on horse dominating
the area that conquered and conquered
the other side has his mother the india
the one that represents the world that lost
which it represents the subject race
which represents slavery
the servitude and that mestizo child by
obvious reasons
looking for an identity, of course try
to follow his father’s line is the
winning race and obvious despises what
indigenous because it represents the race
Submissive wants to be like her father but
despises his indigenous mother only that
there is a problem in the context of and you
give the illegitimate of the union between
Spanish the Indian the Spanish father no
recognizes the mestizo child makes like
I did not see him
the child behind him trying to
imitate it and the unknown and if
Maybe he throws some coins for charity
Christian
the child wants to be like his father
Spanish and never ever to achieve
do it because they are not going to impede
they will allow it
the laws the church and all the
structure looks with bad eyes this
union as a result of this we have a
mestizo that is really an individual
that is frustrated does not manage to be what
pretend to be in words of the eps
here this type of children was called
in a very ugly slogan bastard the
conquest followed its course the mestizos
they multiplied they became the majority
comes an independent process finally
we liberated ourselves and we generated a new country
or new countries in a Latin America
that is disarticulated and gives us as
result what we know the
today a Latin American world
Iberoamerican plagued by mestizo
ideal to tell you that history does not
it ended there because the mestizo of what
We are talking
is here today and it is me and they are the
most of those who are sitting in
this last
we are the heirs of that
miscegenation of that rape to india
we are the ones that we follow
our Spanish father and we despise
our indigenous mother does not believe me
we can put several examples we are going to
start with the go to lse
the statistics mark that the older
consumers of public is colored
they find in Latin America because they do not
we like our eyes
we want blue eyes when in reality
we have some beautiful honey-colored eyes
of honey melipona the maximum
consumers of dyes were
find in Latin America
we do not like our black hair there
people men and women e that i know
it paints we never know it’s actually
black because he managed to whiten from hamas
white clear expression
color but if we go to things more
important
we keep following our father
Spanish that as I said, we are never going to
do like him and we move models
that we want to apply in america without
have any kind of care when thinking
that could be a model created to
another culture and that we try to
impose educational models here by
example
we are constantly changing
models because we think that the model
that just came out in europe is the best
and here it will work in the panacea
for the solution of our education
or economic models
We try to get into markets that do not
they correspond to us by interests of
our european spanish map gringo ya
anyone and we try to apply it in
america without success because they are not
designed for idiosyncratic Indians
of us we could put
many examples of this and
we despise so much on our side
indigenous we despise it so much that
when we want to hurt someone in
reality when we want to offend as much
deep we look him straight in the eyes
and we tell you ‘re a kid and then
nothing like you are a güiro we continue
despising our indigenous mother and
we want to continue being what ever
let’s do like our dad
Spanish is the story that touches us
live and that only we can
leave it
the Latin American philosophers in
particular what it does
some years passed away
he left us an interesting legacy that
few know and that should become
massive that should be taught in the
schools and that all
and when reading he proposes that we should carry
a live affair process to get out of the
potholes of the holes in which we
we find
this process to your TiVo has multiple
guidelines but I’m going to talk about
some
one of them is that we must already
decolonize not independence not
it freed us from our bonds with the
countries that submitted us and that we
continue to submit we remain colonized
in other types of dependencies
we are still dependent on others
we are underdeveloped they say over there
the whole theory of dependence and for
achieve decolonize the first thing that
we have to do
according to Latin American philosophy is
look at ourselves
know ourselves to
depth and recognize that actually
we have a problem a problem
historical a problem that is not
solves pulling models from other sides
a problem that is only going to be solved
when we want from inside
from ourselves from those of our
peoples from our ideas
from our idiosyncrasies models of
change without copying anything from others
trying to find ways where
move forward in unity and together
the second issue is the issue of
education
we need all these ideas
reach our children from
small ones that can identify themselves
fully with what they are mestizos with
all the wealth that this takes because
everything is bad we are a highly
plural
we are a country with fabulous traditions
we are a country with a diversity of
languages that many would like
education has to be that factor
of change and we who teach
we should do it
a third aspect is to call them because I
It would seem that we do not love ourselves
same love us as we are with this color
with our eyes with our hair
recognize the beauty that we have to for
another side recognize it we do not
we could spend the afternoon here
talking about the process proposal
He’s a guy but I think with these
words then it’s pretty clear by
where is the theme
I just want to remember that the unit
It’s the only thing that will get us ahead of
these serious problems that lives
latin america very particularly in
mexico very painful problems in a
bloody country that sometimes in
Yucatan seems to forget us only
unity and this is an old dream and
it’s a dream that comes from the
first thinkers after the
independence Simon Bolivar thought of
the great unity of America to form
the great nation
there was no such unity jose vasconcelos that
surely many know the great
thinker of education in mexico
he thought of a nation project in
where the mestizo us where the
mestizo was the main protagonist
where the mestizo takes the reins of
their countries
I went to the happiness of the people
be josé vasconcelos simón bolívar
They had very similar ideas
Vasconcelos gave a name to me
I really like him called the mestizo
the costa rica race dreaming that he could
be the individual that generates the change
how much is needed
with this I want to close inviting you
let’s reflect that we reflect a lot
about this serious problem because it has
to leave from the depths of
our family societies of
our children of our relationships
of our friends and there you have to
come the change of government and of
policies that are things that are not
they work from below
there is the basis to generate
all the elements of identity that
we need to really feel
proud to be Latin Americans
be Mexican and be Yucatecan
that is the invitation with which I want
leave them and ask them to think always
in which we can certainly meet the
Jose Vasconcelos dream become
the cosmic race
thank you very much
[Applause]
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