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Motecuhzoma’s “Feathered Crown,” One Step Closer to Returning to Mexico
Austria formalized an agreement with Mexico on Tuesday that will allow for the return of a feathered headdress believed to have once belonged to Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin.
The headdress, which is often referred to as a feathered crown, is commonly known by most Mexicans as “El Penacho de Moctezuma,” or “Moctezuma’s feathered headdress.”
Austria’s Ministry of Culture and Education made clear that the headdress’ return to Mexico is considered a “loan,” not the repatriation one of Mexico’s most important cultural symbols.
The headdress is believed to have been taken to Spain by Hernán Cortés in 1519. Reports say Archduke Ferdinand of Austria obtained it in 1590. It’s been housed at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna since the early 1800’s.
Much of the credit for leading the efforts to return the headdress to Mexico goes to Xokonoschtletl Gómora. See video of him below.
The majority of Mexicans, included those who responded to a question we posted on Twitter and Facebook, support having the headdress stay in Mexico.
Video: Xokonoschtletl Gómora - Apoya el Regreso de la Corona de Moctezuma
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But what do these clean, fresh-smelling giants do when they go back home in a month? They finish their university degrees, they get a job, they get married, they have children, they buy things ALL OF THE TIME that will effectively ruin your life more and more each day. But that’s OK, because when they go home, you die. You die before you turn ten. You die from, like, the common cold. Except it eats your face. And your whole family’s faces too.
“But what about confronting the extreme forces on the opposite end of the spectrum? What about the external pressures that take power away from people?”
It simply isn’t your problem, nosey. Who fought for the abolishment of slavery in America? Black people (not fucking Abraham Lincoln, you idiot). Who fought for women’s rights? Women. Who fought in labor movements? Laborers. I’m talkin’ bout grassroots, ya’ll. Ain’t no crime, ain’t no joke. If you are a young person thinking about volunteering in an underdeveloped country (is the word “underdeveloped” controversial yet?). I commend your initiative to spread positive energy all over the universe, but just please remember that it’s a skewed, fucked-up, Western kind of energy, that’s all. Like, maybe instead of volunteering in Africa, you could simply consider hanging out in Africa.
“There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business,” — Arthur Jensen, Network (via eyswdeopn)