What is Aztlan?
Answer:
Aztlán (/as.ˈtlan/, from Nahuatl Aztlan /ˈas.tɬaːn/) is the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples, one of the main cultural groups in Mesoamerica. "Azteca" is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan."
Used by the Chicano Movement:
The concept of Aztlan as the place of origin of the precolumbian Mexican civilization has become a symbol for various Mexican nationalist and indigenist movements.
For example the name Aztlán was taken up by some revolutionary Chicano movement activists of the 1960s and 1970s to refer to the Southwestern United States which was acquired from Mexico by the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War. Combined with the claim of historical linguists and anthropologists that the "Urheimat" of the Aztecan peoples was located in the southwestern United states, Aztlán in this sense became a symbol of Mexican primordial right to the Mexican territories which were colonized by the United States after the Mexican-American War.
The Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, as well as the names of several organizations, such as MEChA, (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, "Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán"), an organization that gained notoriety for making claims against the United States' occupation of Aztlan on behalf of Mexico. Many in the Chicano Movement attribute poet Alurista for popularizing the term Aztlán in a poem presented during the Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in Denver, Colorado, March 1969.
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It's a myth,doesn't exist.
Aztlan is an imaginary place... it is like Neverland, a place that is a myth in reality, but wacko Jacko decided to go ahead and "create" himself... Aztlan is the Mexican "Neverland"...
something that shouldn't be put into consideration...
Aztlan is the Southwest of the USA.
Hispanic-USA or Anglo-Mexico.
Sort of like a Hispanic version of Atlantis but more influenced by heritage.
They're a bunch of hispanic racists.
Blatant racism against all Americans white black asian and Other hispanics.
Aztlan is a Multi-Cultural and Multi-ethnic Nation within the USA.
It is a Hispanic-Latino-Mexican - European -Asian and multicolor America.
Its kind of like Oz. In other words, just made up.
standard aztlan reply:
The myth of Aztlan can best be explained by California's Santa Barbara School District's Chicano Studies textbook, "The Mexican American Heritage" by East Los Angeles high school teacher Carlos Jimenez. On page 84 there is a redrawn map of Mexico and the United States, showing Mexico with a full one-third more territory, all of it taken back from the United States. On page 107, it says "Latinos are now realizing that the power to control Aztlan may once again be in their hands."
Shown are the "repatriated" eight or nine states including Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington. According to the school text, Mexico is supposed to regain these territories as they rightly belong to the "mythical" homeland of Aztlan. On page 86, it says "...a free-trade agreement...promises...if Mexico is to allow the U.S. to invest in Mexico...then Mexico should...be allowed to freely export...Mexican labor. Obviously this would mean a re-evaluation of the border between the two countries as we know it today." Jimenez's Aztlan myth is further amplified at MEChA club meetings held at Santa Barbara Public Schools..
The book, paid for by American tax payers, cites no references or footnotes, leaving school children totally dependent on their teacher to separate fact from opinion and political propaganda. The book teaches separatism, victimization, nationalism, completely lacks patriotism towards the United States, and promotes an open border policy. The book is 100 percent editorial -- the opinions of the author.
Aztlan is the mythical birthplace of some Mexican's ancestors.
It is also a mythical country that many racist Hispanics think will be created when they are the majority in the southwest of the USA. Completely forgetting the *** whuppin' The USA gave them during the Mexican-American War.
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