I’m not a fan of people calling Mexico a “settler-colonial state”. It feels ahistorical and revisitionist.
The settler-colonial state were the empires the preceded the formation of the idea of the Mexico and the colonies were the subjects of those empires. It is true that land was stolen, not by Mexican nationals, but by the Spanish crown.
The story of mankind fought long and blood wars to rid itself of monarchal empires which is why democracies today are so allergic to the idea of dictatorships.
Mexico today is a nation where a man from Saudi Arabia or a woman from Japan can choose to immigrate to Mexico and become fully Mexican.
And it is ultimately the duty of Mexicans to restore and revitalize its native people, not to deny it or reject it as inferior.
