I have to take issue with you here. It is true that most Mexican people are NOT descended from the Aztecs as the Aztecs were just one group of people in what is now Mexico. In fact the Aztecs probobly preyed on some of the ancestors of the modern Mexican which makes this even more interesting, many Mexicans refer to themselves as descendants of the Aztecs. That is the thing, like the blacks who want to be Muslims who sold so many of them into slavery, many Mexicans identify with the people who made war on them, made them into slaves, and used them for sacrifices. So maybe most Mexicans are not Aztecs but many of them think that they are.
I still don't see what this has to do with the OP.
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
No argument with anything in your post here. In fact you are strongly supporting my point that linguistics aside, "Aztec" and "Mexican" are not synonymous. I also agree that this has othing to do with the thread and think it was very stupid AND inappropriate for IB to inject the Aztec/Mexican issue into this topic. He pulled one post out of a seven month old thread and somehow in his odd brain it was appropriate. You should ask him why he diverted the thread--I only defended myself after he brought it up.
By the way, if you go down to the Yucatan and talk with the Mayan descendents, who are most certainly Mexicans, they will NOT be happy if you call them "Aztecs".
Again, this is why I do not put you in the same RWW category as IB and IIFFy. While I disagree with you on a lot of things you can read and make some good points. I really wish the two of them and a few others would learn from you. Thus forum was set up with rules that encourage it to sound like a loud pub shouting match, but they and some others keep trying to make it a sewer.