"This is the Spanish Conquest, which happened not once in 1521, but over and over.  And perhaps not only in one direction, but back and forth:  it was surely an Indian conquest of the Spanairds as they took up the eating of chocolate and tomatoes and tamales.  Or, as the cut stone of the Aztec temple was reassembled in the old sort of paved plaza, into a Christian church this time, and the Indian missions stood in the churchyard playing their ancient tunes on their Indian instruments (to a Virgin of a different name)-what was surrendering to what?  Who was surrendering to whom?"  (Weismann, Art and Time in Mexico, 1985).