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‘I was born in Purépecha, an ancient isolated culture that predates Mexico. We don’t know where they came from. The language has no relation with any other language. They burned everything they produced at the end of the year to start anew, so there are no records.
‘My parents didn’t have much education. My dad was in the military, and we moved to Mexico city and other cities. There was discrimination against indigenous people and pressure to speak Spanish, and my Purépecha became blurry.
‘When I was young, I would tell everyone that the holy grail of progress was to leave Purépecha to study. It was only later that I got interested in re-learning the language and culture and returned to visit. Eventually I felt that uprooting and isolating yourself for all this abstract study is not as important as what we have t ...
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childhoodculturebiologylanguagepurépechamexicoevolution