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The girls, rucas (Indian girls) or cholas (mestizo girls), may wear the same khaki pants or short tight skirts, highly teased long hair, and lots of eye makeup.
Because she gave birth to the first mestizo, the first Mexicano, she is considered the mother of la raza cósmica (the cosmic race).
A second great difference was that many of the Spanish settlers came by way of Mexico, so many of them represented a mestizo (mixed-race) culture rather than a purely sixteenth-century Spanish culture, as the earlier explorers had.
La Raza is used by Chicanos because they identify as mestizo people and see themselves as members of a special race, a group of people with a distinct heritage and destiny.
According to Mexican and Chicano folklore she metaphorically represents the raped Indian woman that produced the mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian) race, the Mexican, but she is also considered a double-crosser.