There is so much to learn about the Maya people but there are two things that stood out to me.  The first problem that stands out to me is that Maya people have strong ideas of how life should be; they incorporated rituals and a way of life and unfortunately when the government didn't like their way of life, they attacked the Maya people.  Discriminating them by talking down about them and setting up reasons why Maya people should be killed is a way to remove what they probably saw as a threat.  It is very upsetting that we as humans do this to each other but it's even more upsetting that the Maya people continue to suffer this type of discrimination today.  The second thing that stood out to me as a problem for the Maya people today is that through the need to finish the Maya people, those who are against them have attacked their culture.  Said simply, nobody has the right to take anything from another person simply because they feel threatened.  We as individuals have the right to pursue our own happiness in the form that we see fit as long as we are not causing pain to others.