Ecuador should be called "Mestizos Republic "

When asked, ‘What do you consider yourself?’ and given six categories from which

to choose, the Ecuadorian population self-identified as follows:

Table 1: Ecuadorian population: ethnic identity identification

This representation of Ecuador’s ethnic structure assumes homogeneity.

Mestizos are not "White Hispanics."

Mestizo refers to someone who is part white, part Native American/indigenous usually half. (In Latin America the term "indigenous" refer to the descendents of the native people.) Example include Mercedes Sosa, Lila Downs, Benjamin Bratt and Ritchie Valens among millions of others. The correct word to refer to a White Latin American is "Criollo." Examples of famous Criollos are Luis Miguel and Shakira. I don't know about Ryan Cabrera but most likely Christina Aguilera is a Castiza half mestizo, half white which I'm almost certain Jessica Alba is.

Mestizo is known even by people outside of Latin America and is still in everyday use. Criollo is a very old word and is rarely used but it can still apply to people who are entirely white like Shakira and Luis Miguel.The reason Christina Aguilera is most likely not white is because the overwhelming majority of Ecuadorians do not identify themselves as being white so it is unlikely her biological father is.

Finally, most Mestizos are not exactly 50/50 White/Amerindian. I would say that they are more like 75/25 Amerindian/White. That is why their Amerindian features stand out more. Also, when you think of a Mexican Mestizo, what comes to mind? Medium-to-Light Brown skin, Jet-Black hair, Chinky eyes, Short in stature/chinky, stock bodies, features that are COMMON to the Amerindians in Mexico. You also think of as thin lips, fine cheekbones, long narrow nose, and a fine texture of hair, features COMMON to Europeans. One does not imagine kinky hair, thick lips, wide noses, long, lean bodies, and dark Brown skin, features COMMON to africans.

AFROECUADOREANS

Afroecuadoreans are generally described as constituting between five and ten percent of the national population. They are principally the descendants of Africans who were brought to the region in the sixteenth century to serve as slave labor on the coastal plantations. The Afroecuadorean population remains centered on the coast, in the Province of Esmeraldas and Guayaquil, with sizeable numbers in the Sierras, in El Carchi, La Cuenca del Rio Mira, Imbabura and more recently in Quito.

The existence of racism in the ecuadorian society is cited as a severe impediment to the ability of Afroecuadoreans to realize their rights and freedoms. Particular issues included widespread discrimination in employment, and the utilization and perpetuation of negative stereotypes. It is pointed out that few blacks are employed in professional positions. This is both a method and a consequence of making this segment of Ecuadorean society feel inferior to others.

Looking to the role of both the public and private spheres, it was indicated that Afroecuadorean culture was not respected, but was rather ignored or disdained. The Commission was informed that the history of the Afroecuadorean population was not generally known, and was not included within the national curriculum concerning the history of the country. This was characterized by Afroecuadoreans as a manifestation of the inferiority with which they are treated as a social sector -- and as a means of further repressing their identity, history and culture.

Origin of the Ecuadorians inferiority complex:

The Ecuadorian society, is characterized by the magnitude of the fragmentation and separation of the population in distinct social classes, running mostly along racial lines. You almost can compare it to the caste system of India with very little possibility of people escaping their born status.

(See statistic of the ecuadorians society)

There is deep mistrust between the various groups with each of them having their own way of thinking and doing things and not feeling themselves part of a bigger good and striving for the same ideals.

White skinned Mestizos..

A white person in the upper echelons of the society identifies himself much more with a foreigner as with his own countrymen. This certainly has its roots in the history of the country with the white or Spanish ruling and the Indians and Mestizos serving them. They consider them generally lazy and uneducated and the main obstacle, why the country is not advancing. They point to a country like Argentina and think the reason that it is better off, is because of their low level of indigenous people. This upper class lives very well and sends their children to the best private schools and later on often to foreign universities. This group later then takes over the power from their parents and makes up the majority of the political and economic leadership of the country, thinking mostly in their own well being and not the country as a whole.

As for the Mestizos, who are the link between the two extremes, they tend, of course, to associate themselves much more with the white upper class as they strive of being part of it. Some of them at the extreme end deny their Indian heritage completely and to even suggest that they have Indian blood in them implicates a grave insult to them. Making up the most part of the middle class, this sector was hit hardest by the economic depression of the last years and the bank failures. It was surprising that there was so little protest over the handling of the crisis with broken promises of returning frozen bank deposits to their rightful owners, most of them middle class Mestizos. Sociologists figure it had to do with their wish to be considered part of the white upper class, which inhibited the people to fight against their desired ideal. But on the other hand this group constitutes the majority of people who leave the country to look for job opportunities overseas. More than half a million Ecuadorians work now legally or illegally in foreign countries and many more want to leave, not seeing any future in their own country, anymore.

Monos and Longos

Apart from all that, there also exists a big division between the people living in the Highlands and the people on the coast. Both regions have their own economic and historical interests, which clash often and produce frictions. Apart from a healthy rivalry, there is a deep seated mistrust between the two regions with both thinking mostly for their own benefit instead of the country's good. The coast being an export oriented region dislikes the interventions of the central government seated in Quito, which they often consider against their commercial interests. In the last years an independent movement for more autonomy started in Guayaquil and spread then to other coastal provinces. The idea is to wrest power from the centralized government and transfer it to their own provincial ones but if this will happen in the future still has to be seen as there are powerful interests against it.

The largest wave of mestizos immigrants to america in history”.

Little known about these low life inferiority complex in America ...people know mexicans, colombians ...etc but a little if nothing about ecuadorans .

Maybe some other south american countries ex. Colombia know what is an ecuadorian and look down on ecuadorians immigrants ...

Ecuadorians with their inferiority complex brought from home , in America this feeling get boosted by the presence of all nationalities and ethnic groups , they feel like the most primitive of all immiggrants ...And these funny fucks refuse to be seen of what they are :”The largest wave of mestizos immigrants to america in history”.

the lowest of all latinos in the world .

Although The Mestizo people themselves are part Indigenous, society in America has taught them to be ashamed of their Inca heritage. Ecuadorian Mestizo , who look physically more like their European conquer generally considered themselves superior to Indigenous people. Similar to racism that occurs all over the world, the way Stupid ecuadorians see it is the lighter the skin the better and easier it has been to make it in american society and gives you a higher status. Today Ecuadorians with almost everybody having some Indian blood in his veins . tend, of course, to associate themselves much more with the white upper class as they strive of being part of it. Some of them at the extreme end deny their Indian heritage completely and to even suggest that they have Indian blood in them implicates a grave insult to them. Making up the most part of the middle class, this sector was hit hardest by the economic depression of the last years and the bank failures. It was surprising that there was so little protest over the handling of the crisis with broken promises of returning frozen bank deposits to their rightful owners, most of them middle class Mestizos. Sociologists figure it had to do with their wish to be considered part of the white upper class, which inhibited the people to fight against their desired ideal. But on the other hand this group constitutes the majority of people who leave the country to look for job opportunities overseas. More than 2 million Ecuadorians work now legally or illegally in foreign countries and many more want to leave, not seeing any future in their own country, anymore.

The inferiority complex of Ecuadorian in NYC in particular and in America in general is so evident , you can see it in different aspect of the life of Ecuadorian community from their costumes to their daily life actions.

They try to hide their primitive savage low form of life part ,as soon as an Ecuadorian ..is light skinned with less indigenous look he start to act in a way to be an image to Ecuador , since as I specified before llittle is known about ecuadorians in america , and with their deep lasting inferiority complex due to differents causes mostly ethnic reasons, as a new huge wave of mestizo immigrant to america (reminder : ecuadorian consider NYC the 3th largest city in Ecuador), the way mestizo ecuadorians a little white looking act is just pathetic , stupid it reflect the white wanna be syndrom well known in the american society, and represent an big issue of inferiority complex and identity crisis. Also a big part of Ecuadorians are influenced by african american culture and they try to act black.

In my personnel opinion anyway they act , whatever they do how ever they act they are funny , its like if they are an primitive specie that just discovered the civilisation (big wave of ecuadorian immigration after the financial crisis)and try to s imposer dans la society, they are an disgrace an despicable inferior human beign who starve for attention , and refuse to be seen for what they are ...the lowest of all latinos in the world .

Most Ecuadorians consider New York Andean nation's third-largest city

The inferiority complex and anti-nationalism beyond all expectation!!

Ask any Ecuadorian to name his country's third-largest city and you may get a response that sounds a bit off, geographically speaking. After the bustling port of Guayaquil and the capital of Quito comes "Nueva York," at least according to popular opinion.

The population figures that give New York the No. 3 standing are a point of contention. Ecuadorians commonly claim to be 1 million strong in the tri-state area .

Where's Ecuador? Not on new school map...

...futured pronostics....

Where's Ecuador? Better not ask that question in Brazil. A new Brazilian geography text book for sixth-grade students doesn't even include the South American country on the map.

In fact, the book distributed by the education ministry in Brazil's most populous state botches the location of most of Brazil's neighbors. Paraguay is switched with Uruguay, and a second "new" Paraguay is shown with a coastline at the southern tip of Brazil.

That is something that even Paraguay's military generals could not accomplish during their 1864-1870 war against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay – in which historians say landlocked Paraguay dreamed of capturing a slice of Brazil's coastline.

Bolivia is fortunate enough to appear on the map, but the book misses its border with Paraguay – the Paraguay that sits where Uruguay should be, that is.

Ecuador like if it was on purpose just vanished from the map ...Just the way the south americans map should be drawn.

Thats just prove that all latinos countries look down on this small homosexuality promoting mesizos country ...Yes Ecuador is an homos country ;the major ethinc group in Ecuador is mestizos with almost 80%.indegeous represent almost 10% , thats make this small country an mestizos country .with almost everybody having some Indian blood in his veins ...Homosexuality is a traditionnal respected life style in Ecuador .

As the Two-Spirit Term coined in the early 1990's by Native Americans during an LGBT gathering in Winnipeg. This modern term is used by many LGBT Native Americans to depict the dynamic balance of masculine and feminine energies within them.

Homosexuality Among Native Americans

When English and French-Canadian fur trappers first grew acquainted with the cultures of the Native Americans among whom they found themselves, they were surprised to find that there were significant numbers of men dressed as women among the tribes of the region. What intrigued them the most, however, was the esteem with which these men were held by their fellow tribesmen. These men were considered to be spiritually gifted, a special gift to the tribe by God, men with a particular insight into spiritual matters. As they were encountered in most tribes, the trappers chose a French word to describe them all: "berdache."

Native Americans find the term offensive as it comes ultimately from the Arabic where it means roughly, 'male prostitute,' a thoroughly unacceptable term to be used for their highly respected spiritual advisors and elders.

The term "Two-Spirit" has been proposed as a replacement . what it does convey is a sense that these people have a special gift - being in two worlds at once, the normal material world, but also an sensitivity to a special gift of the spirit that only people like themselves can experience.

Other terms also fail to convey the breadth of the phenomenon and the esteem in which these men were held. While men living as men with other men were a phenomenon that varied widely among tribes, the phenomenon of the man dressed as a woman who engaged in the pursuit of spiritual matters was almost universal among native americans.

Native American tribes, were greatly admiring of their Two-Spirits. These Two-Spirits held a special status. They were keepers of the ancient traditional stories of creation, healing and growth. But more than that, they were the keepers of the spiritual traditions, recognized for their special gift of being "between genders."

Indeed, some tribes considered their Two-Spirits as being in the middle of a continuum of gender, not an abberation between two opposite genders as the western European model would have it

The veneration of the Two-Spirits was in no small part because of the realization that these people not only were different, but both the tribes and the Two-Spirits themselves understood their difference in spiritual terms - they were seen as prophets, men with mystical powers and the gift to see into two realms of the spirit at the same time - the realm of both men and women.

The veneration of the Two-Spirits began its decline with the arrival of the Spanish with their Inquisition. Of course, Native Americans who ran afoul of the Spanish Inquisition often found themselves being tortured or enslaved, and so they had an incentive to hide their Two-Spirit traditions. Matters weren't much better for the Native Americans who found themselves in lands captured by the English or French, either. In both cases, Two-Spirits and the Two-Spirit tradition was actively persecuted and suppressed as being deviant.

The result has been that many Native Americans fail to appreciate that their Two-Spirit tradition is based on homosexuality and that the word "gay" has a meaning that is associated with homosexual acts, rather than the spiritual traditions of the Two-Spirits who themselves were gay. When tribal elders are asked if there were any gays among them in pre-European times, they will inevitably answer with a resounding, "NO!" Yet when asked about the nadle or the winkte or some other native language term, the answer would be a fond, nostalgic "Yes!" even though the terms are really much the same.

There are some tendancy among hispanics to look down on Ecuadorians....

Hispanics are known of being looked on down as a race in america, but Ecuador, is a world apart , like explained before , they represent the only indigenous country in the world.

Ecuadorians are either mestizo (Spanish and native Indian mix) or they are pure indigenous.. and they have alot less money there in Ecuador than anywhere else in south America..

Colombians just up to the north , for some reason (...)tend to look down to ecuadorian , consider them politically , culturally anf financially inferior , they consider them self better then ecuadorians ,like if the worst of colombian - All things being equal – is better than the best of Ecuadorians.

And ecuadorians aren't unware of the colombians superiority feeling toward them ...adding to the well known deep ionferiority compplex made in Ecuador , that just make the mestizos nation falling deeper in the darkness of their inferiority sentiment.

As an mosquito fighting back a newspapers smashing it ....Ecuadorians in America and NYC try desperatly to change their image as the lower of all hispanics in america ...That may explain the weird comportment of some “hispanics” you may see in NYC or america.the funny way some “hispanics” act trying to pass for what they are not.

The deep inferiority complex and identity crisis charechterizing a large part of hispani community in American and in NYC.

I totally understand they were born to the wrong race, well I know that when Hispanics have a little position and are a little light skinned some of them think they are white, so sad would the white people accept them as white , I don't think so ,a "spic" is a spic no matter what. like they say in Spanish "la mona aunque se vista de seda mona se queda", translation "a monkey even if they are dressed in silk is still a monkey"