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Mexico is known as the new Spain in the past as this country was under the
colony of Spain for more than 300 years since 1521 (Mexico, A Brief History, n.d.). That time
is an era of colonialism which many empires were fight for more colony, more power, and
export of Western values. One of the main objectives of colonialism was to exploit economic
wealth to the mother country (Williamson, 2009), as Spanish Empire did to the native
Mexican. They promoted their ethnic rivals by favoring their people above the native,
Aztecan (Marker, 2003). As a result, lots of the Aztecan, were forced into slavery. It distribute
an inequality in Mexico, the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different
social position or statuses within a group or society (What Is Social Inequality in Sociology,
n.d.). However, Property rights of land and labor did not experience drastic changes the war
of independence, the civil wars continued for decadesafter independence (Escosura, 2005 ).
This research paper will be explained Why the class inequality to indigenous in Mexico
Therere many factors affect the inequality in Mexico. In the past, Latin America
always been more unequal than other parts of the world (Williumson, 2009) as Spain has the
most unequal distribution of land and the land inequality in the former colonial motherlands
is as high as their colonies (Frankema, 2006). The colonial heritage of land inequality is still,
after two centuries of the independence, a major pillar of persistent high levels of income
inequality in Mexico (World bank, 2004). At the start of Mexicans independence, the
minority group, the elite who used to work for Spain, are in control of labor force. They own
more land than the average indigenous and were trying to make profit from the low income
agricultural societies who planted cash crops. It generates long run consequences for the
distribution of income. As a result, these profits created the income gap economic inequality
between the minority and the majority (Frankema, 2006).) The rich become richer while the
poor become poorer. The poverty coincides with large inequality gap of both wealth and
income.
The reason of the spreading of Spanish colonialism is not only wealth, but also
power by spreading their culture, language, and Catholicism. Mexico become the largest
Spanish-speaking population in the world (Lipka, 2016). Also, Mexican today have remained
tied to Catholic, indeed, it is the second-largest number of Catholics country in the world
(Lipka, 2016). According to Frankema (2006), the spread of Catholicism is strongly related to
the inequality in the colonies. As Spain put an effort to assert control over all the Catholic
church, its to control the Mexican (Palmer, 2013). By favor one religious and one cultural
group over others in the colonial societies, it give the higher status to a group of people and
of the country's development into only some part of the country. Therefore, as the higher class
society are in one place, it result more than half of the countrys wealth onto only a sector of
the country (Marker, 2003). Its a capitalism that the development is in only capital or big
cities of the country, and inequalities ingrained in the laws of motion of capitalism.(Yates,
2012). This establish the separation between the rich and poor. After the independence, it
even more obvious to see how the capitalism worked in Mexico. In addition, most of the
people still have vigorously continued the practices of their early colonial masters
(Williamson, 2009).The new government are always the influenced person, it visible to see
their desire to keep the boundaries that were used during the colonial time (Marker, 2003).
After being under Spain control for decades, the new government still lack of governance
skills and experience to rule the people. Theyre also lack of vision to improve peoples life
are still ruled by the repressive and restrictive regimes after the independence (Marker, 2003).
Mostly its because of the Spanish colonization effects. During the colonialism, Spain have
created the beneficial rule for the Spanish in Mexico which had been distributed the
inequality between Indigenous Mexican and the Spains progeny. After the independent war,
these people still have more power and land, which created the income inequality compared
to the labors. Some of them became a government which they were trying to made
advantages for their own group. The rich people live in the big cities while the natives can be
only their workers in an undeveloped part of the country. It became the seperation of skin that
obvious to see and still work as it happened for a long time before the independence.
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