Native And The Mestizo Analysis

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Maria Virginia Farinango was a young girl from Ecuador in a small village called Yana Urku. Virginia has been just a little girl that grows up in poverty, but always wanted an education. A young girl who had wanted more of like not to settle down to keep going. Nevertheless obstacle was thrown in her was still wasn't a sign of defeat for her. Just keep fighting because she knows what great things to come.

Indigenous and the mestizos wasn’t never treated like equal to each other. Indigenous always seem as low class in life with not that much money. When mestizos are granted, like high class more like the top of the food chain. It not about their wealth, but how mestizos treat the indigenous like crash, calling them names,being assaulted,

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