Did they identify as weapons of the spanish empire throughout history or is that a modern invention? (a cope response to a Germanic/Anglo dominated world)
Throughout the 19th century the dominant narrative was of anti-spanish sentiment combined with a general liberal opposition to monarchism.Towards the start of the 20th century conservatives started creating identities around the Castilian tongue and catholic religion, spawning the hispanist narratives you may find online.
>>18418780In other words, conservatives brainwashed themselves into thinking they were Spaniards? It is funny the propaganda worked so well, Spaniards and Latinos are extremely similar looking. If you take a Spanish man and put him in a line up with a Mexican, Guatemalan, Venezuelan, Peruvian, etc you would never identify who the Spaniard is.
>>18418631I don't believe anyone except mindraped militards and people who larp as them identify as 'weapons'. Some Spanish/Portuguese subjects in America (most often those with recent ties) did identify with the Iberian nations during the colonial period. There was a big outburst of anti-spanish sentiment during the early 19th century which then resolved itsef in the later decades of the century with a general pan-hispanic (but not hispanist) sentiment. And that's mostly gone now, relegated to fringe rightists like Hispanists and other such conservatives.
>>18418631THAT QUESTION DOES NOT EVEN MAKE SENSE.
>>18420191you will never be spanish sanchez
>>18418631They didn't "identify" as anything. That sort of ethnoplural/sovereigntist thinking was stamped out in the urban areas of the Americas besides a few special cases where Indian elites were allowed to LARP as Spanish aristocrats over lands that were ceded to them as parts of the viceroyalty.>>18420473>you will never be Spanish, [common Spanish surname]
>>18420489mestizos are not spanishyou can't be spanish unless you're raised in spain
>>18418787Have you even met a mestizo or native in real life?
>>18418631What are you even asking?
