Mestizaje has been understood and taught from a colonial and patriarchal perspective as the existence or the abandonment of a European 'father'. Thus, the mestizo a historical negativity, or a permanent reminder of the violence of 'father'. Whereas its reality and imagination are far richer and more complex. In the process of cultural mixing, the active and leading role of non-western women gave the ethnic dynamic process more vitality and creativity than that presented by official images from the colonial West. Indigenous, Moorish, and African women established a way of life where the sentiment of love became fundamental part of human coexistence.