This same situation occurs when we talk about of mixed race.
The writer Octavio Paz docked the Miscegenation in his book The Labyrinth of Soledadwhere he mentions: “La Chingada is the raped mother. The chingada is passive. Its passivity is abject: it does not offer resistance to violence, it is a brown, bones and dust. His stain is constitutional and resides in his sex «
With this text, Paz represented the conquest Speaking of a violation, not only in the historical sense, but also in the flesh of the Indies. Granting to the Malinchethe delivery symbol. And although it is true that she voluntarily gives to Hernán Cortésas soon as she stopped being useful, he forgets her. Doing Mrs. Marina A representative figure of the Indies raped and seduced by the Spaniards.
These two versions may seem a bit extremist, on the one hand the Hispanicism and on the other hand the Indigenismboth denying the origins of the Mexican people. To resolve this conflict it is necessary to know the story from the beginning.
To begin with, we must make it clear that the symbol of the Malinche and Cortés as the origin of of mixed raceIt is just a metaphor.
The true story began in the Yucatan Peninsula, when Gonzalo Guerrero and Jerónimo de Aguilar, Two Spaniards who shipwrecked in the waters of the Caribbean, joined a Mayan community.