My experience in Guatemala was that the indigenous people were down-trodden and actively oppressed. During the 36 year civil war they were routinely rounded up and massacred by the Guatemalan military. A friend of mine once spent an evening listening to his host father explicitly detail how the indigenous people were actually a different species.
While the government and tourism industry there are quick to show indigenous clothing and talk about their history and how so many different languages are spoken in the country, the reality on the ground is that they're viewed as backwards, uneducated, and unworthy of anything beyond hard labor. That's just in Guatemala though, I don't know about the rest of Latin America.
While the government and tourism industry there are quick to show indigenous clothing and talk about their history and how so many different languages are spoken in the country, the reality on the ground is that they're viewed as backwards, uneducated, and unworthy of anything beyond hard labor. That's just in Guatemala though, I don't know about the rest of Latin America.
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