• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Someone has made up every name for every thing

    You put “Mexica” in English… someone made that up, too. chaos everywhere what will we do

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      4 days ago

      No, the people literally called themselves Mexica, they chose to call them Aztecs because they thought it would confuse the people.

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        4 days ago

        No, they didn’t call themselves “Mexica”.

        They didn’t use the letters “M”, “e”, “x”, “i”, “c”, or even “a”.

        Regardless, the term “Mexica” and all of those English letters were made up by someone. Not a single one of those words or letters existed independent of whomever made them up.

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          3 days ago

          if you would have read the artical that I liked you could indeed see they called themselves Mexica (even if I must use these letters to represent the sounds). They never used the work Aztecs, its just a dumbing down for people, which seems it was needed, but still whitewashing.

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            21 hours ago

            I don’t need to read the article you linked, because SOMEONE made up the term “Mexica”, just like someone made up the term “Aztec” (and every other word ever).

            The term is not eternal, not deemed by God (or Quetzalcoatl)…

            Dumbing down for people, indeed. It’s all over your head, and I’m sorry

            p.s. also there were a variety of peoples, to say “they called themselves Mexica” as if they were one people is actually dumbing it down, friend. They didn’t even all speak the same language.