Marcos, it always amuses me when people claim to be proud of being black or mestizo or some other great brew of human DNA. They had zero to do with it and have nothing whatsoever to be proud of.
It's like being proud of not being a cabbage tree or fish or something. That's ridiculous. One starts out simply different from other things. What oneself chooses to do and achieves could give rise to pride, but being proud of being a human, Kiwi, black, mestizo, Japanese or Mexican for example is simply absurd. One might be pleased to be a Kiwi, mestizo, human, or Japanese, but pleased, happy and glad are quite different from proud.
Maybe they think that being a mestizo makes them superior to me and they should therefore be proud [which is stupid, and shows they therefore have no basis for pride, but assuming that's what they mean, then they can go to hell].
They could also reflect on the old proverb that pride comes before a fall.
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