>inherit dubious land claims from Spain
>already trying to figure out how to get rid of it
>internal political turmoil
>try to sell California and New Mexico to European powers
>people living there don't even know what a "Mexico" is
>federalists start seceding from the country
>have to put down indio revolts in the south and north
>secularize missions and force inhabitants to be Mexican
>carve out massive ranches on Indian land after wiping out the local apache
Centuries later there are still retards who frame the Mexican-American war as anything less noble than one empire btfoing another empire over land claims.

>>17845889 (OP)
The average person doesn’t give a fuck about studying the past. It’s much more exciting to create a nationalist epic in their head which as a bonus is actually useful for accomplishing the political, religious, or racial goals they have in the modern day.

>>17845889 (OP)
sexochitl on the 'log!

>>17845889 (OP)
You can't expect much from a people who are more shocked by the fact that a Gringo opens a bar in the center of Mexico City than by the local narco decapitating an entire family.

>>17845889 (OP)
Mexicans are half native

next time you hear a Gayreek whine mmmuh 1453 just remember that:

>the ERE actually died April 12, 1204 and its final 250 years were a zombie state
>the European powers did not actually give a shit about saving remnants of ERE from the Turks as there was nothing worth saving
>most Greeks willingly converted to Islam after fall of Constantinople and majority of modern population of Turkey (in west of the country anyway) is ethnic Greeks who speak Turkish and practice Islam
>modern Greece is centered around Attica Thessalonica Peloponnese etc which were irrelevant and impoverished since barbarian invasions of 3rd century and through entire ERE

yet Gayreeks create nationalistic narrative about hundreds of years of brutal enslavement by Turks and heroic independence war in 19th century