And in the absence of the coffee bean, coca leaf and magical jumping pinto bean crops, they are destitute. And furthermore, that the shades of pigmentation represented among them is not important. A Mexican does not bother with prefixes when describing himself. When referring to one another they dispense with pedigrees. They are all present-day Mexicans.
Bloodlines are unimportant.
Our system of hyphenation stems not from racial or ethnic pride, an admirable and important sentiment, but from the misleading source of revisionist history. In an attempt to give every group its fair due and acknowledge the injustices of the past, we have adopted a lexicon of euphemisms to assuage the feelings of all. Though to be sure, strange prejudices exist in all places, being an unfortunate condition of human nature. However, Latin Americans, in not drawing linguistic attention to an individual's ethnic composition offer North Americans an important lesson. Brimming with racial pride, we have laid down the roots for future hostility.