THE AMERICANS

Since I was a little boy, I was fascinated by the Indians. The idea of a people that lived in wild nature fighting off dangerous animals and other enemies with their bare hands and some stoneage weapons appealed to me as much as their looks, the long hair, the stone like chiseled faces with the sharp noses and the dark complexion. I wanted to be an Indian. Like Christopher Columbus I had to find out some years later that the Indians were actually Americans, so I asked my teacher why we still call them Indians. „Because we are now the Americans“ he said. Today most of the Americans are living in Mexico where most people call them Mexicans. When I got to the South of Mexico some time ago it suddenly occurred to me, that the only true „America“ is where the Americans live who we call Indians. Funny that.