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		stephenr on April 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Russian government threatens to block CloudFlare You're saying the current day USA-Mexico border is the limit of where any pre-columbian Mexicans ever inhabited?

dragonwriter on April 12, 2014 [–]

I'm saying that "Mexican" isn't a meaningful description of any group of people that existed before the Spanish conquest.

stephenr on April 13, 2014 | [–]

The people who inhabited what is modern day mexico.

before colonisation the native americans weren't called native americans or indians but that doesn't mean they didn't exist.

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