sat., 27 nov., 2010, another post-angstgiving quechua sobriquet for conquistadores

QUECHUA:    wiraqocha   (sing.)   /
                        wiraqochas   (pl.)   
 
     ++ )   Spaniard, Spaniards, non-Quechua speaker — mod. Andean Incas see very 
               little difference between the Conquistadores who killed their kings, enslaved
               their peoples, & plundered their resources  (which they sold for a song to
               Europe & to N. America), while bankrupting their country, & the modern  
               white “gringos” & “Spaniards” running the country.  The elite owns most of
               the resources & wields most of the political & economic power, while only
               comprising up 5 % of the populace.   Differences between the remaining
               population are as much cultural as they are ethnic:  45 % are  a mestizo or
               creole urban populace, either middle class & / or aspiring to materialism &
               affluence;  the rest are Andean Inca (though some are ethnically mestizo, or
               even Caucasian), rural (whether in the highlands, midlands, or coastal areas), 
               speak Quechua, & retain the agrarian values & communal traditions — 
               Cosmovision is the modern relig., which combines Roman Catholicism & the
               older Inca religion (which resembles the pantheism & ancestor worship of the 
               Shinto relig.) .
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