Like other places in the Americas, more white (read: primarily European ancestry) Mexicans are generally richer, more “respected,” and have much control over the highest and most powerful industries and professions in Mexico. The more “native” you are generally the worse off post-Conquest you were and still are.
NGL, embarrassed to say that I didn't really "get" this, until when I started reading up more on Venezuela and found that they even do the Birther movement type shit down there. US media really tends to downplay the race relations in Central/South Americas. And then the Bolivian coup and those fucking bible-thumping neo-nazis... and then reading The Jakarta Method brought it all together in a historical Worker vs Owners class based context.
NGL, embarrassed to say that I didn't really "get" this, until when I started reading up more on Venezuela and found that they even do the Birther movement type shit down there. US media really tends to downplay the race relations in Central/South Americas. And then the Bolivian coup and those fucking bible-thumping neo-nazis... and then reading The Jakarta Method brought it all together in a historical Worker vs Owners class based context.