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>Mexicans hate the aztecs
Ehh... not really? There is a lot of prehispanic pride here. For a little bit over a hundred years, since Porfirio Díaz attempted to use aztec heritage and symbols as a way to promote cultural pride.
Then you had the indigenous social insurgence movements, who for a while also identified themselves with a nebulous "mesoamerican peoples" umbrella term and used a lot of aztec symbols. Only recently they started being specific about which tribe/nation they belonged to.
The government, performative and retarded as ever, held a ceremony asking Quetzalcoatl to guide the newly appointed judges. Any other day I'd think this is super cool, but the current government is maliciously incompetent and only using indigenous people as a shield.
Which leads to the current sociopolitical climate and what I like to call "performative aztec fatigue." It's not that people dislike aztec history, myths or heritage. We're just tired of being bombarded with propaganda disguised in feathered headdresses and jaguar loincloths. The right turns away from indigenous heritage in favor of spaniard heritage, the left turns away from the latter but often rejects aztecs in favor of smaller "more oppressed" tribes, or ignores both to direct their sympathies to whatever foreign group they perceive as the current victim (i.e. Palestine).
But hey, people still like aztecs enough to make bread in the shape of the bloodthirsty god of rain and storms. So it's safe to say it's still part of the cultural zeitgeist.
