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Help[Opinions] Re: Is it wrong to give your baby a tribal name if you're not from that tribe?
in reply to a message by Apozanolotl
Oof, I'm starting to suspect you're a troll. Quite significantly. Ignoring the weird narrative here, as someone from a very multicultural family, I don't really understand why you'd "gatekeep" your culture in this negative way, let alone from a child who'd also be partially from your culture (even if someone isn't 100% that culture, that's still their heritage)?
Also, it's not my place to police and not my place to really pass comment or judgement, so you don't have to answer - but I do wonder why you use the term 'Aztec' rather than the seemingly widely preferred Nahua? You have your absolute right to self-determination and I'm sorry if I'm casting aspersions, but the choice of name does (as someone who has First Nations friends and family) make me at the very least curious if not a bit suspicious.
Also, it's not my place to police and not my place to really pass comment or judgement, so you don't have to answer - but I do wonder why you use the term 'Aztec' rather than the seemingly widely preferred Nahua? You have your absolute right to self-determination and I'm sorry if I'm casting aspersions, but the choice of name does (as someone who has First Nations friends and family) make me at the very least curious if not a bit suspicious.
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Nahua and Aztec speak the same language that it is but are different the Aztec civilization became established roughly 125 years after the Nahua civilization fell.
This message was edited 10/17/2024, 5:07 PM
Erm.
Again, I am not from this particular indigenous background. But I'm starting to wonder... either way, this is not factually correct.
Multiple google search for 'Nahua people today': https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f602dc89620483ed&rlz=1C1SLLM_en-GBGB1109GB1109&sxsrf=ADLYWIK1USJbpmglm4QqMq988UDLiS8POQ:1729279870280&q=Nahua+people+today&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjnIrD1ZiJAxWLbEEAHQKoFacQ1QJ6BAhVEAE&biw=1536&bih=695&dpr=1.25
Britannica article about the Nahua people: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nahua
One of many ethnographic websites about the Nahua people: https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/cultures/nu46/summary
Examples of publications about Nahua culture and society TO PRESENT DAY: https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-nahua
I hate to refer to Wiki, but I'm going to - the Nahua people literally have a page referring to them as very much alive and thriving - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuas
I also hate to refer to Reddit but I'm going to - here - https://www.reddit.com/r/mesoamerica/comments/10xza4u/mexicaaztecnahuatl_getting_the_terms_right/ and also the Nahuatl subreddit. According to this my question of Nahua isn't strictly right as it refers mainly to Nahuatl-speaking persons, but I have also been very up front with my lack of cultural knowledge and not wanting to overstep my mark as someone not from the culture... but it's still a term that's used.
Again, I am not from this particular indigenous background. But I'm starting to wonder... either way, this is not factually correct.
Multiple google search for 'Nahua people today': https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f602dc89620483ed&rlz=1C1SLLM_en-GBGB1109GB1109&sxsrf=ADLYWIK1USJbpmglm4QqMq988UDLiS8POQ:1729279870280&q=Nahua+people+today&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjnIrD1ZiJAxWLbEEAHQKoFacQ1QJ6BAhVEAE&biw=1536&bih=695&dpr=1.25
Britannica article about the Nahua people: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nahua
One of many ethnographic websites about the Nahua people: https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/cultures/nu46/summary
Examples of publications about Nahua culture and society TO PRESENT DAY: https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-nahua
I hate to refer to Wiki, but I'm going to - the Nahua people literally have a page referring to them as very much alive and thriving - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuas
I also hate to refer to Reddit but I'm going to - here - https://www.reddit.com/r/mesoamerica/comments/10xza4u/mexicaaztecnahuatl_getting_the_terms_right/ and also the Nahuatl subreddit. According to this my question of Nahua isn't strictly right as it refers mainly to Nahuatl-speaking persons, but I have also been very up front with my lack of cultural knowledge and not wanting to overstep my mark as someone not from the culture... but it's still a term that's used.
This message was edited 10/18/2024, 1:29 PM
Hey I understand where your coming from.But Aztec people and the Nahua people are different tribes that happened at different times from each other.Yes I know that the Aztec are descendant from Nahua tribe. I just was trying to say that they both happen at different times from each other.The Aztec tribe was formed 125 years after the Nahua tribe fell.
Lol. I don't think you do understand.
ok