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 non-Anglo Saxon America in the 19th century or the "Hispanic ethnicity” with which English speakers catalogue us in the 20th century.

The contempt that we have inherited from the five centuries of colonialism keeps us from valuing and respecting the indigenous peoples, our Old Grandparents and even ourselves. It is very clear when we disparagingly call them "Indians". For many centuries, it has been known that Christopher Columbus was wrong and never reached India while searching for a new trade route; therefore, the "found" peoples were not "Indians". After so many years of colonization we are not even interested in knowing how our ancestors called themselves. In other words, we have lost t our historic memory, interest and pride in ourselves. The ancient Mexicans called the continent CEM-ANAHUAC and they recognized themselves as ANAHUACAS, which is why there were Mayan anahuacas, Zapotec anahuacas, Mexica anahuacas and so on.