Where did Mexicans come from? – They have a choice of ‘origin myths’ — one a tale of betrayal, another a story of beauty.
Posted on: October 22nd, 2007“You’ve heard the old saw: You can’t get to where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been.
It’s as true for peoples and countries as it is for individuals: We all need narratives to give meaning to our lives; we all look to archetypes and symbols to explain who we are. Ethnic and national “origin myths” may be pure fable (two divines, Izanai and Izanami, giving birth to the islands of Japan; twins, born of the gods and suckled by a wolf, founding Rome) or something closer to material reality. But fact or fiction barely matters: What’s important is what stories we choose and what we understand them to mean. “*
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