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[–] Katrisia@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

But those native people are still alive and the majority identify as Mexicans (additional to their community's identity). They're often bicultural, bilingual, etc.

Are you really going to walk to Xochimilco, where there are still chinampas, and tell the people they should not take credit for them as a society, for example? As crazy as to walk to an ethnic German in Köln and telling him/her that the Köln cathedral and the... Cologne, sorry, whatever, and the food and the stuff is not really their heritage because "you weren't Germany until...". WTH? Then all Germans did during the Weimar Republic wasn't them. All they did as Empires wasn't them. I hope it's not an awful analogy.

Like, you're technically correct, but pragmatically it doesn't make much sense to me in this case.