Matt Ortega

More than a week ago, the BBC reported on a recent study, published by the Public Library of Science Genetics.

European colonisation of Latin America resulted in a dramatic shift from a native American population to a largely mixed one, a genetic study has shown.

It suggests male European settlers mated with native and African women, and slaughtered the men.

The study reaffirmed a brutal history of Spanish colonization –

Explaining the fate of native males when the Europeans arrived, Professor Luiz-Linares said: “It is a very sad and terrible historical fact, they were basically annihilated.

“Not only did the European settlers take away land and property, they also took away the women and, as much as possible, they exterminated the men.”

The life of a person with a mixed background is a truly unique experience.

The title to the autobiography of Governor Bill Richardson (D-New Mexico), born to a Mexican mother and white father, is a rather apt portrayal of the mixed experience: Between Worlds.