Spanish term
asumida como propia
I'd be grateful for any bright ideas about how to translate "sentida ni asumida como propia" as I'm having a complete mental block!
Thanks very much in advance.
It's about the findings of the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación in Peru.
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Proposed translations
United States
Translating words, preserving meaning
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, English
and was never experienced as such by other Peruvians.
Alternatively:
and was never experienced as an important loss by the other Peruvians.
"Other Peruvians" is more natural (and specific) here than the literal "the rest of the country."
None of the other choices previously offered sound particularly natural.
Suerte.
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Note added at 24 mins (2013-02-25 17:22:01 GMT)
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Erratum:
Delete "the" in the second suggestion.
Also:
If you use my second suggestion, you might want to adapt it to include the word "personal":
and was never experienced as an important personal loss by other Peruvians.
Chem Engineer, Manager and Translator
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Argentine, Latin American) 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Spanish, and 1 more.
the rest of their countrymen do not consider it their own
Regards!
Translations that speak your language
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
assumed as theirs/assumed as their own
was not felt or adopted as its own by the rest of the country
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Note added at 15 mins (2013-02-25 17:13:01 GMT)
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the verb asumir I find is more often translated at ' to adopt'.
Spain
A cut above the rest in translation...
Native in: English (Variants: UK, Irish, US) 
, Spanish (Variants: Standard-Spain, Latin American)
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
and did not occur elsewhere in the country
Then if you translate “no fue sentida” as “was isolated to”, you don’t have to tackle the rather clumsy construction of the Spanish (“was not felt or assumed by”), and end up with more natural sounding English.
Here’s my understanding of the passage:
“In this regard, 75% of fatalities spoke Quechua or other indigenous languages as their mother tongue; the atrocities were mostly isolated to Quechua and Asháninka-speaking rural communities in Andean and jungle regions of Peru, and did not occur elsewhere in the country.”
“En tal sentido, el 75% de las víctimas fatales hablaban quechua u otras lenguas originarias como idioma materno ; la tragedia fue sufrida mayormente por poblaciones rurales del Perú andino y selvático, de lengua quechua y asháninka, y no fue sentida ni asumida como propia por el resto del país."
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Hope this helps
United States
Each translation a gem!
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English
Discussion
the rest of the country/population did not feel it concerned/involved/affected them.
Sorry, here's the page for Peru's Commission. (Am also translating a section on Paraguay's so had that page open at the time).
No, it's not a silly question. The above website gives a good outline.