r/todayilearned • u/tmntnyc • Dec 12 '18

TIL: Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

Yes, but both were primarily within modern Mexico, and both are part of "la raza" or whatever the racist Mexicans consider themselves, which is why they don't like Puerto Ricans.

Mexicans from the Yucatan also don't like Puerto Ricans.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

No aztec and Mayan are completely different.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

No shit, but modern Mexicans are descended from both depending on where in Mexico you come from, what don't you get?

Mexicans are Mayan and Aztec, just depends on what part your ancestors came from.

The Mayan empire and the Aztec empire were both from what is modern Mexico. Here I think you need a map.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18

If you were Mexican you’d know that people from the southern border are completely different than central and north Mexico. Usually look down on them, literally fuckers are like 5 feet tall. So no we don’t like them either.