>>8128Eh, it's complicated, and I try not to paint in broad strokes.
Let's start with the Mexica - the indigineous race of Mexico, of whom the Aztec, Zapotec and Maya are derived.
Their ancient religious practices were barbaric, when the Spanish discovered them they were essentially stuck in a chacolithic stasis, the belief of the Aztecs was that the gods were struggling constantly, in order to hold the world together, and the only thing which would give them back the strength to make the sun rise again, was the sacrifice of human beings.
Weirdly the pure Mexica nowadays, what few of them are left, tend to be simple villagers dwelling in the remote south, and in the central American states.
Perhaps a little rough and backwards as you might expect from an isolated rural people, but they have given up the practices of their remote ancestors.
Now, your average Mexican is part native, part Spanish, and a sprinkle of negro, and it's among the racially admixed majority population, that small subsets who engage in these practices *today* are found.
In an admittedly turgid defense of the wetback (because somebody has to provide a straw man) there are similarly barbaric stories dotting the history of every nation on earth.
A favourite of mine is "Sawney Bean" a scots bandit who lead a clan of inbred cannibals, largely consisting of his own offspring, and the offspring of his offspring, with himself and his offspring.
The main difference though, is the scale they occur on.
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