Highlanders in Glasgow at the start of the 18th century and indigenous people in Queretaro now

I read the passage below that describes wild Highlanders in Glasgow at the start of the 18th century in Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy and immediately thought of Queretaro in Mexico, where our son and his family live. The Highlanders in “antique and fancy dress” are akin to the many indigenous people you see in Queretaro in their usually brightly coloured clothes. One night before dawn we saw what seemed to be almost an army of indigenous people marching out of Queretaro. The Highlanders spoke a different language (Gaelic) from the Glaswegians, who spoke Scots, and the indigenous people of Mexico have their own languages. Inevitably the indigenous people, like the Highlanders, are poorer that the residents of the cities. Like the Highlanders the indigenous people live in remote areas but are often forced through poverty to leave and head to the city, perhaps temporarily or perhaps permanently. Both might form “settlements” on the edge of the city, and both are important for the economy…