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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = White Latin Americans
| native_name = Eurolatinoamericanos
| native_name_lang = <!-- Please don't remove this without specifying a reason, either on the Talk page or in the edit summary! -->
| pop = '''191.5 million – 220.6 million'''<ref name=CIAethn/><ref name=Lizcano/><br /><small>''' 40.0% of Latin American population'''</small>
* Figures exclude French, Dutch, and English-speaking areas of the Americas
| region1 = {{flagcountry|Brazil}}
| pop1 =
| region2 = {{flagcountry|Mexico}}
| pop2 = 18M–59M (52M)<ref name=BritannicaMex /><ref name="conapred21Marzo2">{{cite web |url=http://www.conapred.org.mx/documentos_cedoc/21_Marzo_DiaIntElimDiscRacial_INACCSS.pdf|title=21 de Marzo: Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial|trans-title=March 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |language=es|publisher=[[National Council to Prevent Discrimination|CONAPRED]]|location=Mexico|page=7|date=2017|access-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525133622/http://www.conapred.org.mx/documentos_cedoc/21_Marzo_DiaIntElimDiscRacial_INACCSS.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="conapredEncuesta">{{cite web |url=http://www.conapred.org.mx/userfiles/files/Enadis-2010-RG-Accss-002.pdf |title=Encuesta Nacional Sobre Discriminación en Mexico 2010|trans-title=National Survey on Discrimination in Mexico 2010|language=es |publisher=CONAPRED|location=Mexico |date=June 2011|access-date=August 24, 2017|url-status=live |archive-date=November 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108095738/http://www.conapred.org.mx/userfiles/files/Enadis-2010-RG-Accss-002.pdf}}</ref>
| region3 = {{flagcountry|Argentina}}
| pop3 = 38M<ref name=Lizcano/>
| region4 = {{flagcountry|Colombia}}
| pop4 = 8.
| region5 = {{flagcountry|
| pop5 = 12M<ref name="Lizcano">{{cite journal |last1=Lizcano Fernández |first1=Francisco |title=Composición Étnica de las Tres Áreas Culturales del Continente Americano al Comienzo del Siglo XXI |trans-title=Ethnic Composition of the Three Cultural Areas of the American Continent at the Beginning of the 21st Century |language=es |journal=Convergencia |date=August 2005 |volume=12 |issue=38 |pages=185–232 |url=http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1405-14352005000200185 }}</ref>
| region6 = {{flagcountry|
| pop6 = 4.1M–13M (8.55M)<ref name=Lizcano/><ref name="Census2011">{{cite web|url=http://www.ine.gob.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/nacional.pdf|title=Resultado Básico del XIV Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2011 (Mayo 2014)|page=29|publisher=Ine.gov.ve|access-date=8 September 2014}}</ref><ref name="ine.gob.ve"/>
| region7 = {{flagcountry|
| pop7 = 7.175M<ref name="BibliotecaUniversitariadelaUNSAAC">{{cite news|url= http://www.espejodelperu.com.pe/Poblacion-del-Peru/Inmigracion-Europea-al-Peru.htm |title=Inmigración Europea al Perú|work=Biblioteca Universitaria de la UNSAAC|date=1 January 2007|last1=Abuhadba Rodrigues|first1=Daniel}}</ref>
| region8 = {{flagcountry|Cuba}}
| pop8 = 4.1M–7.16M (5.63M)<ref name=Lizcano/><ref name="onei.cu">[http://www.onei.gob.cu/sites/default/files/informe_nacional_censo_0.pdf The Official 2012 Cuba Census] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603230454/http://www.one.cu/publicaciones/cepde/cpv2012/20140428informenacional/46_tabla_II_4.pdf |date=June 3, 2014 }}</ref>
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| pop10 = 2.9M<ref name="UR">{{cite web | title=Uruguay: People and Society| url =https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/uruguay/ | work =CIA World Factbook | access-date = 5 February 2014}}</ref> | region11 = {{flagcountry|Paraguay}}
| pop11 = 1.1M–2.1M (1.6M)<ref name="Pastore 1972 526">{{cite book |title=La lucha por la tierra en el Paraguay: Proceso histórico y legislativo.|last=Pastore|first=Carlos|publisher=Antequera|page=526|year=1972}}</ref>
| region12 = {{flagcountry|Dominican Republic}}
| pop12 = 1.2M–1.6M (1.4M)<ref name=Lizcano/><ref name="DR">{{cite web | title=D.R.: People; Ethnic groups| url =https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/dominican-republic/ | work =CIA World Factbook | access-date = 2007-11-26}}</ref>
| region13 = {{flagcountry|Ecuador}}
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| region14 = {{flagcountry|Bolivia}}
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| ref15 = <ref>{{cite web |title=El Salvador-The World Factbook |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/el-salvador/ |website=CIA.gov |access-date=23 July 2021}}</ref>
| region16 = {{flagcountry|
| pop16 = 0.
| ref16 = <ref name="NI">{{cite journal |last1=Nuñez |first1=Carolina |last2=Baeta |first2=Miriam |last3=Sosa |first3=Cecilia |last4=Casalod |first4=Yolanda |last5=Ge |first5=Jianye |last6=Budowle |first6=Bruce |last7=Martínez-Jarreta |first7=Begoña |title=Reconstructing the population history of Nicaragua by means of mtDNA, Y-chromosome STRs, and autosomal STR markers |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |date=December 2010 |volume=143 |issue=4 |pages=591–600 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.21355 |pmid=20721944 }}</ref>
| region17 = {{flagcountry|
| pop17 = 0.56M<ref name="2020PRCensus">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/improved-race-ethnicity-measures-reveal-united-states-population-much-more-multiracial.html |title=2020 Census Illuminates Racial and Ethnic Composition of the Country |work=[[United States Census]] |access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref>
| region18 = {{flagcountry|Guatemala}}
| pop18 = 0.455M<ref name=Lizcano/>
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| pop20 = 0.09M
| ref20 = <ref name="HR">{{cite web | title=Honduras; People; Ethnic groups | url =https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/honduras/ | work =CIA World Factbook | access-date = 2007-11-21}}</ref>
| languages = '''Major languages'''<br />[[Spanish language in the Americas|Spanish]] and [[
| religions =
| footnotes =
| related_groups = [[Mestizo]]s, [[Mulatto]]s, [[Spaniards]], [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]], [[French people|French]], [[Italians]], [[Romanians]], [[British people|British]], [[Irish people|Irish]], [[Germans]], [[Danes]], [[Norwegians]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]], [[Belgians]], [[Swedes]], [[Polish people|Poles]], [[Ukrainians]], [[Russians]], [[Croats]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]], [[Hungarians]], [[Greeks]], [[Jews]], [[Arabs]], [[Armenians]]
}}
'''White Latin Americans'''
Composing from 33% of the population {{As of|2010|lc=y}}, according to some sources,<ref name="CIAethn">[[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] data from [[The World Factbook]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20070613003008/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2075.html Field Listing :: Ethnic groups] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20070613003851/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2119.html Field Listing :: Population], retrieved on May 09 2011. They show 191,543,213 whites from a total population of 579,092,570. For a few countries the percentage of white population is not provided as a standalone figure, and thus that datum is considered to be not available; for example, in Chile's case the CIA states "white and white-Amerindian 95.4%". Unequivocal data are given for the following: Argentina 41,769,726 * 97% white = 40,516,634; Bolivia 10,118,683 * 5% white = 505,934; Brazil 203,429,773 * 53.7% white = 109,241,788; Colombia 44,725,543 * 20% white = 8,945,109; Cuba 11,087,330 * 65.1% white = 7,217,852; Dominican Republic 9,956,648 * 16% white = 1,593,064; El Salvador 6,071,774 * 9% white = 546,460; Honduras 8,143,564 * 1% white = 81,436; Mexico 113,724,226 * 9% white = 10,235,180; Nicaragua 5,666,301 * 17% white = 963,272; Panama 3,460,462 * 10% white = 346,046; Peru 29,248,943 * 15% white = 4,387,342; Puerto Rico 3,989,133 * 76.2% white = 3,039,719; Uruguay 3,308,535 * 88% white = 2,911,511. Total white population in these countries: 191,543,213, i.e 33.07% of the region's population.</ref><ref name=Lizcano/><ref>{{cite journal |
==Being white==
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According to [[Peter Wade]], a specialist in race concepts of Latin America,
<blockquote>...racial categories and racial ideologies are not simply those that elaborate social constructions on the basis of phenotypical variation or ideas about innate difference but those that do so using the particular aspects of phenotypical variation that were worked into vital signifiers of difference during European colonial encounters with others.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wade
In many parts of Latin America, being white is more a matter of socio-economic status than specific phenotypic traits, and it is often said that in Latin America "money whitens".<ref>Levine-Rasky, Cynthia. 2002. "Working through whiteness: international perspectives. SUNY Press (p. 73) " 'Money whitens' If any phrase encapsulates the association of whiteness and the modern in Latin America, this is it. It is a cliché formulated and reformulated throughout the region, a truism dependent upon the social experience that wealth is associated with whiteness, and that in obtaining the former one may become aligned with the latter (and vice versa)."</ref> Within Latin America there are variations in how racial boundaries have been defined. In Argentina, for example, the notion of mixture has been downplayed. Alternately, in countries like Mexico and Brazil mixture has been emphasized as fundamental for nation-building, resulting in a large group of bi-racial ''mestizos'', in Mexico, or tri-racial ''[[pardo]]s'', in Brazil,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/presidencia/noticias/noticia_visualiza.php?id_noticia=2170&id_pagina=1|title=IBGE - sala de imprensa - notícias|author=IBGE|work=ibge.gov.br}}</ref><ref name="laboratoriogene">[http://www.laboratoriogene.com.br/geneImprensa/2009/pensamento.pdf Do pensamento racial ao pensamento racional] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522233206/http://www.laboratoriogene.com.br/geneImprensa/2009/pensamento.pdf |date=May 22, 2014 }}, [http://www.laboratoriogene.com.br laboratoriogene.com.br].</ref> who are considered neither fully white nor fully non-white.<ref>{{cite book|author=Wade, Peter|chapter=Race in Latin America|editor=Poole, Deborah|year=2008|title=Companion to Latin American Anthropology|url=https://archive.org/details/companiontolatin00pool|url-access=limited|publisher=Blackwell publishing|page=[https://archive.org/details/companiontolatin00pool/page/n193 182]|isbn=9780631234685|quote=The nature of Latin American societies as mestizo – with the variations that run from Argentina, where the image of mixture is downplayed in favor of whiteness, to Brazil or Mexico, where mixture is foregrounded in discourse on the nation – has powerfully shaped ideas about race in the region.}}</ref>
Unlike in the United States (where ancestry may be used exclusively to define race), by the 1970s, Latin American scholars came to agree that race in Latin America could not be understood as the "genetic composition of individuals" but instead must be "based upon a combination of cultural, social, and [[wiktionary:somatic|somatic]] considerations". In Latin America, a person's ancestry may not be decisive in racial classification. For example, full-blooded siblings can often be classified as belonging to different races (Harris 1964).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7846.html|title=Sample Chapter for Telles, E.E.: Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil.|work=princeton.edu|access-date=2011-12-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125201950/http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7846.html|archive-date=2012-01-25|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis|url=http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4222t703|title=The Japanese in multiracial Peru, 1899-1942|work=eScholarship|year=2009|publisher=UC San Diego}}</ref>
For these reasons, the distinction between "white" and "mixed", and between "mixed" and "black" and "indigenous", is largely subjective and situational, meaning that any attempt to classify by discrete racial categories is fraught with problems.<ref>{{cite book|author=Wade, Peter|chapter=Race in Latin America|editor=Poole, Deborah|year=2008|title=Companion to Latin American Anthropology|publisher=Blackwell publishing|page=184|quote=However, "black" and "indigenous" are often vaguely defined and there is an indecisive, subjective distinction between them and "mixed" and between the latter and "white" (hence the problems of enumerating these populations).}}</ref>
==History==
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[[File:Nebel Voyage 16 La Mantilla.jpg|thumb|White Mexican women wearing the ''[[mantilla]]'', painting by [[Carl Nebel]], 1836]]
People of [[Ethnic groups in Europe|European]] origin began to arrive in the Americas in the 15th century since the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Most early migrants were male, but by the early and mid
After the Wars of Independence, the elites of most of the countries of the region concluded that their underdevelopment was caused by their populations being mostly [[Amerindian]], [[Mestizo]] or [[Mulatto]];<ref name=euram>{{cite web |title=L'emigració dels europeus cap a Amèrica |trans-title=The Emigration of Europeans to America |url=http://www.edualter.org/material/vld/amlat13.pdf |website=EduAlter.org |language=ca |access-date=26 March 2018 |archive-date=8 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108002752/http://www.edualter.org/material/vld/amlat13.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> so a major process of "[[Racial whitening|whitening]]" was required, or at least desirable.<ref name=branqueamento /><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Loveman |first1=Mara |title=Whiteness in Latin America: measurement and meaning in national censuses (1850-1950) |journal=Journal de la société des américanistes |date=5 December 2009 |volume=95 |issue=95–2 |pages=207–234 |doi=10.4000/jsa.
=== Historical demographic growth ===
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{| class="wikitable"
! Year !! White !! Black !! Amerindian !! Mestizo !! Total
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As in Spain, persons of Moorish or Jewish ancestry within two generations were generally not allowed to enroll in the Spanish Army or the Catholic Church in the colonies, although this prohibition was inconsistently applied. Applicants to both institutions, and their spouses, had to obtain a ''[[Limpieza de sangre]]'' (purity of blood) certificate that proved that they had no Jewish or Moorish ancestors, in the same way as those in the Peninsula did. However, being a medieval concept that was more of a religious issue rather than a racial issue, it was never a problem for the native or slave populations in the colonies of the Spanish Empire, and by law people from all races were to join the army, with openly practicing Roman Catholicism being the only prerequisite. One notable example was that of [[Francisco Menendez (creole)|Francisco Menendez]], a freed-black military officer of the Spanish Army during the 18th century at the [[Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose]] fort in St. Augustine, Florida.<ref>{{cite book | title=Black society in Spanish Florida | publisher=University of Illinois Press | author=Landers, Jane | year=1999 | pages=29 | isbn=0-252-06753-3}}</ref>
=== European DNA ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Country !! colspan="2"| European DNA average
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| [[Genetic history of Europe|Native European]]|| {{bartable|99||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Argentina<ref name="Paroli et al">{{cite journal|title=Genetic admixture patterns in Argentinian Patagonia|year=2019|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0214830|pmid=31206551|pmc=6576754 |doi-access=free |last1=Parolin |first1=María Laura |last2=Toscanini |first2=Ulises F. |last3=Velázquez |first3=Irina F. |last4=Llull |first4=Cintia |last5=Berardi |first5=Gabriela L. |last6=Holley |first6=Alfredo |last7=Tamburrini |first7=Camila |last8=Avena |first8=Sergio |last9=Carnese |first9=Francisco R. |last10=Lanata |first10=José L. |last11=Sánchez Carnero |first11=Noela |last12=Arce |first12=Lucas F. |last13=Basso |first13=Néstor G. |last14=Pereira |first14=Rui |last15=Gusmão |first15=Leonor |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=14 |issue=6 |pages=e0214830 |bibcode=2019PLoSO..1414830P }}</ref>|| {{bartable|62||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Bolivia<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0058980 | doi-access=free | title=The Genetic Legacy of the Pre-Colonial Period in Contemporary Bolivians | year=2013 | last1=Taboada-Echalar | first1=Patricia | last2=Álvarez-Iglesias | first2=Vanesa | last3=Heinz | first3=Tanja | last4=Vidal-Bralo | first4=Laura | last5=Gómez-Carballa | first5=Alberto | last6=Catelli | first6=Laura | last7=Pardo-Seco | first7=Jacobo | last8=Pastoriza | first8=Ana | last9=Carracedo | first9=Ángel | last10=Torres-Balanza | first10=Antonio | last11=Rocabado | first11=Omar | last12=Vullo | first12=Carlos | last13=Salas | first13=Antonio | journal=PLOS ONE | volume=8 | issue=3 | pages=e58980 | pmid=23527064 | pmc=3604014 | bibcode=2013PLoSO...858980T }}</ref> || {{bartable|25||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Brazil<ref name="Interethnic">{{cite journal |last1=Salano |first1=F. |last2=Sanz |first2=M. |title=Interethnic admixture and the evolution of Latin American populations |journal=NIH National Library of Medicine |date=31 March 2014 |volume=37 |doi=10.1590/s1415-47572014000200003 |pmid=24764751 |pmc=3983580 }}</ref> || {{bartable|59||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Chile<ref name="Eyheramendy2015">{{cite journal |last1=Eyheramendy |first1=Susana |last2=Martinez |first2=Felipe I. |last3=Manevy |first3=Federico |last4=Vial |first4=Cecilia |last5=Repetto |first5=Gabriela M. |title=Genetic structure characterization of Chileans reflects historical immigration patterns |journal=Nature Communications |date=17 March 2015 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=6472 |doi=10.1038/ncomms7472 |pmid=25778948 |pmc=4382693 |bibcode=2015NatCo...6.6472E }}</ref> || {{bartable|54||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Colombia<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Criollo-Rayo |display-authors=et al |title=Colorectal Cancer Risk and Ancestry in Colombian admixed Populations |journal=medRxiv |date=2 March 2023 |doi=10.1101/2023.03.02.23286692 }}</ref> || {{bartable|51||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Costa Rica<ref name="Interethnic"/> || {{bartable|58||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Cuba<ref>{{cite journal | pmid=30061702 | year=2018 | last1=Fortes-Lima | first1=C. | last2=Bybjerg-Grauholm | first2=J. | last3=Marin-Padrón | first3=L. C. | last4=Gomez-Cabezas | first4=E. J. | last5=Bækvad-Hansen | first5=M. | last6=Hansen | first6=C. S. | last7=Le | first7=P. | last8=Hougaard | first8=D. M. | last9=Verdu | first9=P. | last10=Mors | first10=O. | last11=Parra | first11=E. J. | last12=Marcheco-Teruel | first12=B. | title=Exploring Cuba's population structure and demographic history using genome-wide data | journal=Scientific Reports | volume=8 | issue=1 | page=11422 | doi=10.1038/s41598-018-29851-3 | pmc=6065444 | bibcode=2018NatSR...811422F }}</ref> || {{bartable|71||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Ecuador<ref name="Ecuador genes">{{cite journal |last1=Gaviria |first1=Zambrano |display-authors=et al |title=The three-hybrid genetic composition of an Ecuadorian population using AIMs-InDels compared with autosomes, mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome data |journal=National Library of Medicine |date=25 June 2019 |volume=9 |issue=1 |page=9247 |doi=10.1038/s41598-019-45723-w |pmid=31239502 |pmc=6592923|bibcode=2019NatSR...9.9247Z }}</ref> || {{bartable|36||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| El Salvador<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Salazar-Flores |first1=J. |last2=Zuñiga-Chiquette |first2=F. |last3=Rubi-Castellanos |first3=R. |last4=Álvarez-Miranda |first4=J.L. |last5=Zetina-Hérnandez |first5=A. |last6=Martínez-Sevilla |first6=V.M. |last7=González-Andrade |first7=F. |last8=Corach |first8=D. |last9=Vullo |first9=C. |last10=Álvarez |first10=J.C. |last11=Lorente |first11=J.A. |last12=Sánchez-Diz |first12=P. |last13=Herrera |first13=R.J. |last14=Cerda-Flores |first14=R.M. |last15=Muñoz-Valle |first15=J.F. |last16=Rangel-Villalobos |first16=H. |title=Admixture and genetic relationships of Mexican Mestizos regarding Latin American and Caribbean populations based on 13 CODIS-STRs |journal=HOMO |date=February 2015 |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=44–59 |doi=10.1016/j.jchb.2014.08.005 }}</ref> || {{bartable|47||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Guatemala<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Söchtig |first1=J. |display-authors=et al |title=Genomic insights on the ethno-history of the Maya and the ‘Ladinos’ from Guatemala |journal=NIH National Library of Medicine |date=25 February 2015 |volume=16 |doi=10.1186/s12864-015-1339-1 |doi-access=free |pmid=25887241 |pmc=4422331 }}</ref> || {{bartable|35||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Haiti<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fonte |first1=F. |title=45 Haitian AncestryDNA Results |url=https://tracingafricanroots.wordpress.com/2016/11/06/45-haitian-ancestrydna-results/ |website=Tracing African Roots |date=6 November 2016 |access-date=7 October 2024}}</ref> || {{bartable|11||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Honduras<ref name="Fuerst">{{cite journal |last1=Morera |first1=Bernal |title=Estimacion de la mezcla genetica en la poblacion de Nicaragua |trans-title=Admixture in the Americas: Regional and National Differences |journal=Cuadernos de Antropología |date=2006 |volume=16 |pages=39–46 |url=https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/antropologia/article/view/20483 |language=es }}</ref> || {{bartable|50||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Mexico<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ashg.org/genetics/ashg06s/f10071.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116235945/http://www.ashg.org/genetics/ashg06s/f10071.htm | archive-date=January 16, 2013 | title=Evaluation of Ancestry and Linkage Disequilibrium Sharing in Admixed Population in Mexico }}</ref> || {{bartable|51||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Nicaragua<ref name="Fuerst"/> || {{bartable|57||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Panama<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Castro-Pérez |first1=E. |display-authors=et al |title=Genetic Ancestry of the Panamanian Population: Polymorphic Structure, Chibchan Amerindian Genes; and Biological Perspectives on Diseases |journal=Internet Scientific Publications |date=2016 |volume=9 |doi=10.5580/IJBA.44045 |url=https://ispub.com/IJBA/9/1/44045 |access-date=7 October 2024}}</ref> || {{bartable|25||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Paraguay<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Simão |first1=F. |last2=Ferreira |first2=A.P. |last3=Vullo |first3=C. |last4=Xavier |first4=C. |last5=Huber |first5=G. |last6=Quiroz |first6=A. |last7=Machado |first7=P. |last8=Velázquez |first8=V. |last9=Carvalho |first9=E.F. |last10=Gusmão |first10=L. |last11=Parson |first11=W. |title=Paraguay: Unveiling migration patterns with ancestry genetic markers |journal=Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series |date=December 2017 |volume=6 |pages=e226–e228 |doi=10.1016/j.fsigss.2017.09.104 }}</ref> || {{bartable|60||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Peru<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Asgari |first1=Samira |last2=Luo |first2=Yang |last3=Huang |first3=Chuan-Chin |last4=Zhang |first4=Zibiao |last5=Calderon |first5=Roger |last6=Jimenez |first6=Judith |last7=Yataco |first7=Rosa |last8=Contreras |first8=Carmen |last9=Galea |first9=Jerome T. |last10=Lecca |first10=Leonid |last11=Jones |first11=David |last12=Moody |first12=D. Branch |last13=Murray |first13=Megan B. |last14=Raychaudhuri |first14=Soumya |title=Higher native Peruvian genetic ancestry proportion is associated with tuberculosis progression risk |journal=Cell Genomics |date=July 2022 |volume=2 |issue=7 |pages=100151 |doi=10.1016/j.xgen.2022.100151 }}</ref> || {{bartable|26||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Puerto Rico<ref name="Interethnic"/> || {{bartable|64||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Dom. Rep.<ref name="Genetic History">{{cite journal | doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1003925 | title=Reconstructing the Population Genetic History of the Caribbean | year=2013 | last1=Moreno-Estrada | first1=Andrés | last2=Gravel | first2=Simon | last3=Zakharia | first3=Fouad | last4=McCauley | first4=Jacob L. | last5=Byrnes | first5=Jake K. | last6=Gignoux | first6=Christopher R. | last7=Ortiz-Tello | first7=Patricia A. | last8=Martínez | first8=Ricardo J. | last9=Hedges | first9=Dale J. | last10=Morris | first10=Richard W. | last11=Eng | first11=Celeste | last12=Sandoval | first12=Karla | last13=Acevedo-Acevedo | first13=Suehelay | last14=Norman | first14=Paul J. | last15=Layrisse | first15=Zulay | last16=Parham | first16=Peter | last17=Martínez-Cruzado | first17=Juan Carlos | last18=Burchard | first18=Esteban González | last19=Cuccaro | first19=Michael L. | last20=Martin | first20=Eden R. | last21=Bustamante | first21=Carlos D. | journal=PLOS Genetics | volume=9 | issue=11 | pages=e1003925 | pmid=24244192 | pmc=3828151 | doi-access=free }}</ref> || {{bartable|57||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Uruguay<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bonilla |first1=Carolina |last2=Bertoni |first2=Bernardo |last3=González |first3=Susana |last4=Cardoso |first4=Horacio |last5=Brum-Zorrilla |first5=Nadir |last6=Sans |first6=Mónica |title=Substantial native American female contribution to the population of Tacuarembó, Uruguay, reveals past episodes of sex-biased gene flow: Native American Admixture in Uruguay |journal=American Journal of Human Biology |date=May 2004 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=289–297 |doi=10.1002/ajhb.20025 |pmid=15101054 |s2cid=34341356 }}</ref> || {{bartable|69||2||background:#0080FF}}
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| Venezuela<ref name="Fuerst"/> || {{bartable|56||2||background:#0080FF}}
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== Self-identified Populations==
The country with the largest number of self-identified Euro-Latino inhabitants in [[Latin America]] is Brazil, with 88 million out of 203.0 million total Brazilians,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibge.gov.br/en/home-eng.html?id_noticia=2018&id_pagina=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117081541/http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/presidencia/noticias/noticia_visualiza.php?id_noticia=2018&id_pagina=1|url-status=dead|title=IBGE | Portal do IBGE | IBGE|archive-date=January 17, 2013|website=www.ibge.gov.br}}</ref> or 43.4% of the total population, as of the 2022 census. Brazil's southern region contains the highest concentration, at 79% of the population self-identificated.<ref name="Igbe Brasil 2010">{{cite web |title=Censo Demográfico 2010: Características gerais da população, religião e pessoas com deficiência |trans-title=Census 2010: general characteristics of the population, religion and people with disabilities |url=http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/censo2010/caracteristicas_religiao_deficiencia/default_caracteristicas_religiao_deficiencia.shtm |year=2010 |website=[[Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics|Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística]] |language=pt |access-date=7 October 2016}}</ref> [[Argentina]] received the largest number of post-colonial European immigrants, with more than 7 million,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/argentina/|title=Argentina - The World Factbook|website=www.cia.gov|date=14 April 2022}}</ref> second only to the United States, which received 24 million.In terms of percentage of the total population, [[Uruguay]] has the highest concentrations of self-identified or classified whites, who constitute +70% of their total population, while [[Honduras]] and [[El Salvador]] have the smallest classified white population, in a range of 1-13%.
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|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[Demographics of Argentina|Argentina]]
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|5<ref name="BL">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/bolivia/|title=Bolivia: People; Ethnic groups|work=CIA World Factbook|access-date=2007-11-26}}</ref>
| 15<
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|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Demographics of Brazil|Brazil]]
|44<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ibge.gov.br/english/estatistica/populacao/censo2022/caracteristicas_da_populacao/tabelas_pdf/tab3.pdf | title=IBGE | Portal do IBGE | IBGE }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pinhoni |first1=Marina |last2=Croquer |first2=Gabriel |title=Censo 2022: Pela 1ª vez, Brasil se declara mais pardo que branco; populações preta e indígena também crescem |url=https://g1.globo.com/economia/censo/noticia/2023/12/22/censo-2022-cor-ou-raca.ghtml |work=G1 |date=22 December 2023 |language=pt-br }}</ref>
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|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[Demographics of Chile|Chile]]
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| 23<ref name="latinobarometro2023">{{cite web |title=Raza/Etnia a la que pertenece |url=https://www.latinobarometro.org/latOnline.jsp |access-date=13 February 2024 |work=Latinobarómetro 2023 Colombia}}</ref>
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|34<ref name="latinobarometro2023"/>
|83<ref name="Costa Rica">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Costa_Rica.html|title=Costa Rica|work=worldstatesmen.org}}</ref><ref name="LUN.COM Mobile">{{Cite web|url=http://www.lun.com/LunMobileIphone//Pages/NewsDetailMobile.aspx?dt=2013-11-23&BodyId=0&PaginaID=18&NewsID=246141&|title=LUN.COM Mobile}}</ref>
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|64<ref>[http://www.one.cu/publicaciones/cepde/cpv2012/20140428informenacional/46_tabla_II_4.pdf official 2012 Census] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603230454/http://www.one.cu/publicaciones/cepde/cpv2012/20140428informenacional/46_tabla_II_4.pdf |date=June 3, 2014 }}
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|2<ref name="Ecuador2022">{{cite web|url=https://www.primicias.ec/noticias/sociedad/censo-ecuador/resultados-poblacion-mestizos-afro-indigena/|title= Más mestizos, menos afros y pocos blancos: así se ven los ecuatorianos|website=Primicias|date=22 September 2023|accessdate=14 November 2023}}</ref>
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|13<ref>{{cite web |url=http://internacional.us.es/uploads/images/EL%20SALVADOR%202013.pdf |title=Voluntariado internacional 2013 – EL SALVADOR |publisher=Solidaridad Internacional Andalucía |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222091210/http://internacional.us.es/uploads/images/EL%20SALVADOR%202013.pdf |archive-date=2015-12-22 }}</ref><ref name="2007 El Salvador Census">{{cite web|url=http://www.digestyc.gob.sv/biblioteca/CENSOS/CENAPOVI2007/Tomo_IV_Vol.I_Municipios_Caracteristicas_Generales.pdf#page=336|title=VI Censo de población y V de vivienda 2007|page=273|publisher=Dirección General de Estadística y Censos|access-date=2021-05-02|language=es|archive-date=2019-12-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220071530/http://www.digestyc.gob.sv/biblioteca/CENSOS/CENAPOVI2007/Tomo_IV_Vol.I_Municipios_Caracteristicas_Generales.pdf#page=336|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| 4<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lizcano Fernandez |first1=Francisco |title=Composición Étnica de las Tres Áreas Culturales del Continente Americano al Comienzo del Siglo XXI |url=http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1405-14352005000200185 |journal=Convergencia |date=August 2005 |volume=12 |issue=38 |pages=185–232 |access-date=23 July 2021}}</ref>
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|5<ref name="CIA World Factbook : Haiti">[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/haiti/ CIA World Factbook : Haiti].</ref>
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|8<ref>Honduras - XVII Censo de Población y VI de Vivienda 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210225073620/http://170.238.108.229/index.php/catalog/69/vargrp/VG8]</ref>
|1<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.embajadahonduras.org.mx/v1/cultura.php|title=Embajada de Honduras en México|website=Embajadahonduras.org.mx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222170837/http://www.embajadahonduras.org.mx/v1/cultura.php|archive-date=2015-12-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latribuna.hn/2015/07/25/conozcas-mas-de-nuestras-costumbres-y-tradiciones/|title=Conozca más de nuestras costumbres y tradiciones|work=Diario La Tribuna Honduras|access-date=2015-12-28|archive-date=2015-12-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222160020/http://www.latribuna.hn/2015/07/25/conozcas-mas-de-nuestras-costumbres-y-tradiciones/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|30<ref name=BritannicaMex>''About one third''{{cite encyclopedia |title=Mexico: Ethnic groups |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Mexico/Ethnic-groups |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=March 8, 2024}}</ref>
|- bgcolor=#ffffff
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[Demographics of Nicaragua|Nicaragua]]
|9<ref>Latinobarómetro 2020. [https://www.latinobarometro.org/latOnline.jsp] "Raza/Etnia a la que pertenece"</ref>
|17<ref>{{cite web |title=Nicaragua |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Nicaragua/Plant-and-animal-life#ref277483 |website=britannica.com |publisher=BRITANNICA |access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref>
|- bgcolor=#ffffff
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[Demographics of Panama|Panama]]
|15<ref name="latinobarometro2023"/>
|10<ref>{{cite web|url=http://espana.panamaemb.gob.pa/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=43|title=Cultura y Etnias|website=Espana.panamaemb.gob.pa|access-date=8 October 2017}}</ref>
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|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[Demographics of Peru|Peru]]
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|18<ref name="ONE-Encuesta-Autopercepcion">{{cite web|date=September 2021|location=Santo Domingo |title=Breve Encuesta Nacional de Autopercepción Racial y Étnica en la República Dominicana |publisher=Oficina Nacional de Estadística de la República Dominicana|url=https://dominicanrepublic.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/encuesta_nacional_de_autopercepcion_racial_y_etnica_en_rd_100322.pdf|page=22|accessdate=December 8, 2022}}</ref>
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|88<ref name="Lizcano"/><ref name=CIA>{{cite web |author=Central Intelligence Agency |title=Uruguay |work=The World Factbook |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |location=Langley, Virginia |year=2016 |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/uruguay/ |access-date=1 January 2017}}</ref>
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|44<ref name="Census2011" /><ref name="ine.gob.ve">{{cite web|url=http://www.ine.gob.ve/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=95&Itemid=26|title=DEMOGRÁFICOS : Censos de Población y Vivienda|website=Ine.gov.ve|access-date=8 October 2017}}</ref>
|17<ref name=Lizcano/>
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== European influence by country ==
===North America===
====Mexico====
{{Main|Mexicans of European descent|Immigration to Mexico|Mexican people}}
Mexico's northern and western regions have the highest percentages of [[Ethnic groups of Europe|European]] population, according to the American historian [[Howard F. Cline]] the majority of Mexicans in these regions have no native admixture
Estimates of Mexico's white population differ greatly in both, methodology and percentages given, extra-official sources such as the World factbook
A study performed in hospitals of Mexico City
===
{{Main|White Caribbeans}}
====Cuba====
{{Main|Cubans}}
An autosomal study from 2014 found the genetic makeup in Cuba to be 72% European, 20% African, and 8% Native American with different proportions depending on the self-reported ancestry (White, Mulatto or Mestizo, and Black). According to this study Whites are on average 86% European, 6.7% African and 7.8% Native American with European ancestry ranging from 65% to 99%. 75% of whites are over 80% European and 50% are over 88% European<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marcheco-Teruel |first1=B |last2=Parra |first2=EJ |last3=Fuentes-Smith |first3=E |last4=Salas |first4=A |last5=Buttenschøn |first5=HN |last6=Demontis |first6=D |last7=Torres-Español |first7=M |last8=Marín-Padrón |first8=LC |last9=Gómez-Cabezas |first9=EJ |last10=Alvarez-Iglesias |first10=V |last11=Mosquera-Miguel |first11=A |last12=Martínez-Fuentes |first12=A |last13=Carracedo |first13=A |last14=Børglum |first14=AD |last15=Mors |first15=O |display-authors=5 |title=Cuba: Exploring the History of Admixture and the Genetic Basis of Pigmentation Using Autosomal and Uniparental Markers |year=2014 |journal=PLOS Genetics |volume=10 |issue=7 |pages=e1004488 |doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004488 |pmid=25058410 |pmc=4109857 |doi-access=free }}</ref> According to a study in 2011 Whites are on average 5.8% African with African ancestry ranging from 0% to 13%. 75% of whites are under 8% African and 50% are under 5% African.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Teruel |first1=Beatriz Marcheco |last2=Rodríguez |first2=Juan J Llibre |last3=McKeigue |first3=Paul |last4=Mesa T |first4=Teresa Collazo |last5=Fuentes |first5=Evelyn |last6=Cepero A |first6=Adolfo Valhuerdi |last7=Hernandez |first7=Milagros A Guerra |last8=Copeland JRM |first8=John RM |last9=Ferri |first9=Cleusa P |last10=Prince |first10=Martin J |title=Interactions between genetic admixture, ethnic identity, APOE genotype and dementia prevalence in an admixed Cuban sample; a cross-sectional population survey and nested case-control study |journal=BMC Medical Genetics |date=December 2011 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=43 |doi=10.1186/1471-2350-12-43 |pmid=21435264 |pmc=3079615 |doi-access=free }}</ref> A study from 2009 analysed the genetic structure of the three principal ethnic groups from [[Havana]] City (209 individuals), and the contribution of parental populations to its genetic pool. A contribution from [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas]] was not detectable in the studied sample.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cintado |first1=A. |last2=Companioni |first2=O. |last3=Nazabal |first3=M. |last4=Camacho |first4=H. |last5=Ferrer |first5=A. |last6=De Cossio |first6=M. E. Fernandez |last7=Marrero |first7=A. |last8=Ale |first8=M. |last9=Villarreal |first9=A. |last10=Leal |first10=L. |last11=Casalvilla |first11=R. |last12=Benitez |first12=J. |last13=Novoa |first13=L. |last14=Diaz-Horta |first14=O. |last15=Dueñas |first15=M. |title=Admixture estimates for the population of Havana City |journal=Annals of Human Biology |date=1 January 2009 |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=350–360 |doi=10.1080/03014460902817984 |pmid=19381988 |s2cid=10307820 }}</ref>
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| White||86%||6.7%||7.8%
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{{main|White Haitian}}
The white and the [[mulatto]] population of [[Haiti]]
That 5% minority group comprises people of many different ethnic and national backgrounds, who are [[French people|French]], Spanish, Polish and other European ancestry,<ref name="haitimega">{{cite web |title=The Polish Influence in Casale, Haiti and Contribution to the Haitian Revolution |url=http://www.haitimega.com/Haiti_Grand_Anse-The_Polish_Influence_in_Casale_Haiti_and_Contribution_to_the_Haitian_Revolution/84117465590726656/article_86845847910949337.jsp |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225201837/http://www.haitimega.com/Haiti_Grand_Anse-The_Polish_Influence_in_Casale_Haiti_and_Contribution_to_the_Haitian_Revolution/84117465590726656/article_86845847910949337.jsp |archive-date=25 February 2014 |access-date=7 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://zmblackhistorymonth2011.blogspot.com/2011/02/feb-17-polish-haitians-how-they-came-to.html |title=Polish Haitians: How They Came to Be |access-date=6 February 2014|date=2011-02-17 }}</ref> as well as the [[Jewish diaspora]], arriving from the Polish legion and during the Holocaust,<ref name="haitimega"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/haiti.html |title=Haiti |publisher=[[Jewish Virtual Library]] |access-date=2014-02-07}}</ref> [[Germanic peoples|Germans]] (18th century and {{no wrap|[[World War I]]}}),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prevalhaiti.com/messages/7983 |title=Haiti And The German Connection |access-date=30 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northeastern.edu/haitinet/foreign-relations/#Germany |title=Haiti Net Foreign Relations |access-date=30 January 2014 |archive-date=16 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016021724/http://www.northeastern.edu/#Germany |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Italian people|Italian]].
====Puerto Rico====
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| 1530||333{{smallsup|a}}, 426{{smallsup|b}}||8.0-10.0||<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sp.rcm.upr.edu/demo/images/CIDEclasico/Pob-politicaPublica/Francisco%20Moscoso-1995-El%20censo%20de%20Lando%201530%20historiografia%20y%20critica.pdf|title=El -Censo de Lando (1530)|website=Sp.rcm.edu|access-date=2 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004121248/http://sp.rcm.upr.edu/demo/images/CIDEclasico/Pob-politicaPublica/Francisco%20Moscoso-1995-El%20censo%20de%20Lando%201530%20historiografia%20y%20critica.pdf|archive-date=4 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://repasopcmasumet.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/hpr_s-xvi1.pdf HISTORIA DE PUERTO RICO] Page 17.</ref>||1887||474,933||59.5||<ref name="archive.org">
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| 1765||17,572|| - ||{{citation needed|date=June 2023|reason=previous citation led to irrelevant page}}
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| 1775||30,709||40.4||<ref name="soph.md.rcm.upr.edu">[http://soph.md.rcm.upr.edu/demo/images/VazquezCalzada/Vazques-trabajos/Vazquez-1968-el%20crecimiento%20poblacional.pdf El crecimiento poblacional en Puerto Rico: 1493 al presente] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003174514/http://soph.md.rcm.upr.edu/demo/images/VazquezCalzada/Vazques-trabajos/Vazquez-1968-el%20crecimiento%20poblacional.pdf |df=dmy-all |date=2015-10-03}} (Population of Puerto Rico 1493 - present)</ref>||1899||589,426||61.8||<ref name="archive.org"/>
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| 1787||46,756||45.5||<ref name="soph.md.rcm.upr.edu"/>||1910||732,555||65.5|||<ref name="www2.census.gov">
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| 1802||78,281||48.0||<ref name="archive.org"/>||1920||948,709||73.0|||<ref name="www2.census.gov"/>
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In 2010,
In 1899, one year after the U.S invaded and took control of the island, 61.8% identified as white. In 2000, for the first time in fifty years, the [[2000 United States Census|census]] asked people to define their race and found the percentage of whites had risen to 80.5% (3,064,862); not because there has been an influx of whites to the island (or an exodus of non-White people), but a change of race perceptions, mainly because Puerto Rican elites wished to portray Puerto Rico as the "white island of the Antilles", partly as a response to scientific racism.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rigau-Pérez |first1=José G. |title=Strategies that led to the eradication of smallpox in Puerto Rico, 1882-1921 |journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine |date=1985 |volume=59 |issue=1 |pages=75–88 |pmid=3886051 |id={{ProQuest|1296295316}} |jstor=44452038 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Loveman |first1=Mara |last2=Muniz |first2=Jeronimo O. |title=How Puerto Rico Became White: Boundary Dynamics and Intercensus Racial Reclassification |journal=American Sociological Review |date=December 2007 |volume=72 |issue=6 |pages=915–939 |doi=10.1177/000312240707200604 |jstor=25472503 |s2cid=144405526 |citeseerx=10.1.1.563.9069 }}</ref>
Geologist [[Robert T. Hill]] published a book titled Cuba and Porto Rico, with the other islands of the West Indies (1899), wrote that the island was "notable among the West Indian group for the reason that its preponderant population is of the white race"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hill |first1=Robert Thomas |author-link1=Robert T. Hill |title=Cuba and Porto Rico: With the Other Islands of the West Indies: Their Topography, Climate, Flora, Products, Industries, Cities, People, Political Conditions, Etc |date=1899 |publisher=Century |page=146 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3eRAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA146 }}</ref> and "Porto Rico, at least, has not become [[Africanization|Africanized]]".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hill |first1=Robert Thomas |title=Cuba and Porto Rico: With the Other Islands of the West Indies: Their Topography, Climate, Flora, Products, Industries, Cities, People, Political Conditions, Etc |date=1899 |publisher=Century |page=165 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3eRAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA165 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.loc.gov/item/98001546/|title=Cuba and Porto Rico, with the other islands of the West Indies|date=1899|website=Library of Congress|accessdate=10 November 2023}}</ref>
According to a [[genetic research]] by the [[University of
===Central America===
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From the late 19th century to when the [[Panama Canal]] opened, European migrants used Costa Rica to get across the isthmus of Central America to reach the west coast of the United States ([[California]]).
The most recent [[2022 Costa Rican census]] recorded ethnic or racial identity for all groups separately for the first time in more than ninety-five years since the [[1927 Costa Rican census|1927 census]]. Options included indigenous, Black or Afro-descendant, Mulatto, Chinese, Mestizo, white and other on section IV: question 7.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://admin.inec.cr/sites/default/files/media/_por_que_se_hacen_estas_preguntas_1.pdf|title=INEC Cuestionario Censo 2022|website=INEC|date=2022|accessdate=6 April 2023}}</ref>
Estimates of the percentage classified as white people vary between 77%<ref name="Costa Rica"/> and 82%,<ref name=Lizcano/> or about 3.1–3.5 million people. The white and mestizo populations combined equal 83%, according to the [[CIA World Factbook]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/costa-rica/|title=The World Factbook|work=cia.gov|date=10 May 2022 }}</ref>
Many of the first Spanish colonists in Costa Rica may have been Jewish converts to Christianity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jcpa.org/dje/articles2/costarica.htm|title=The Jewish Community in Costa Rica|work=jcpa.org}}</ref> The first sizable group of self-identified Jews immigrated from diaspora communities in Poland, beginning in 1929. From the 1930s to the early 1950s, journalistic and official anti-Semitic campaigns fueled harassment of Jews; however, by the 1950s and 1960s, the immigrants won greater acceptance. Most of the 3,500 Costa Rican Jews today are not highly observant, but they remain largely endogamous.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.everyculture.com/Bo-Co/Costa-Rica.html|title=Culture of Costa Rica - history, people, women, beliefs, food, customs, family, social, marriage|work=everyculture.com}}</ref>
A study done in Costa Rica, in the province of Guanacaste, revealed that the average genetic admixture was 45% European, 33% indigenous, 14.6% black and 5.8% Asian.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wallace |first1=Arturo |title=¿Qué tan diferentes son en realidad los habitantes de Costa Rica a los del resto de los países centroamericanos? |url=https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-40017780 |newspaper=BBC News Mundo |access-date=22 December 2023}}</ref>
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According to the official 2007 Census in El Salvador, 12.7% of Salvadorans identified as being "white",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digestyc.gob.sv/servers/redatam/htdocs/CPV2007S/Docs/RESULTADOS_FINALES.pdf |title=Vi Censo de Población V de Vivienda 2007 |access-date=2015-12-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923214714/http://www.digestyc.gob.sv/servers/redatam/htdocs/CPV2007S/Docs/RESULTADOS_FINALES.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-23 }}{{unreliable source?|date=November 2020}}</ref> and 86.3% as mestizo.<ref>{{cite web |title=El Salvador-The World Factbook |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/el-salvador/ |website=The World Factbook |access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref>
Before the conquest it was the Central American nation with the lowest Amerindian population,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Newson |first1=Linda |translator=Jorge Federico Travieso |title=El Costo de la Conquista |isbn=99926-15-57-5 |location=Tegusigalpa, Honduras |publisher=Editorial Guaymuras |date=1999 |url=https://guaymuras.hn/cienciassocialeslibro.php?idweb=40 |language=es}}</ref> due to diseases and hostility from Europeans, the Amerindian population fell precipitously.<ref>{{cite web |title=Historia de El Salvador |url=https://www.mined.gob.sv/descarga/cipotes/historia_ESA_TomoI_0_.pdf |website=mined.gob.sv |access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref> This was due to the small indigenous population in the area and colonial governors wanting to repopulate the land with Europeans.<ref>{{cite web |title=La Gente Blanca de Chalatenango |url=https://chalatenango.sv/la-gente-blanca-de-chalatenango |website=chalatenango.sv |date=22 November 2011 |access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Francois Louis Héctor de Carondelet |url=http://michel.turpain.pagesperso-orange.fr/pages/carondelet.htm |access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref> Spaniards, mainly from Galicia and Asturias emigrated to El Salvador. Later, the country would experience other waves of other European immigrants, mainly Italian and Spaniards.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Colombo |first1=Alessandra |title=La storia degli italiani in El Salvador |date=10 July 2003 |url=https://archive.org/details/la-storia-degli-italiani-in-el-salvador |access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Jorge |first1=Ferrer |title=Españoles en El Salvador a fines del siglo XIX y principios del Siglo XX |date=6 September 2003 |url=https://archive.org/details/espanoles-en-el-salvador-a-fines-del-siglo-xix-y-principios-del-siglo-xx |access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref> The immigration of the time had a great demographic impact, since by 1880 there were 480,000 inhabitants in El Salvador, 40 years later in 1920, there were 1.2 million Salvadorans.<ref>{{cite web |title=EL SALVADOR:population growth |url=http://populstat.info/Americas/elsalvac.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321153053fw_/http://populstat.info/Americas/elsalvac.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-03-21 |website=Web Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite
Genetic study of the publication ''Genomic Components in America's demography'', in which geneticists from all over the continent and Japan participated, that the average genetic composition of the average Salvadoran is: 52% European, 40% Amerindian, 6% African and 2% Middle Eastern.<ref>https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4307/35125440893_3566ed7714_o.jpg{{full citation needed|date=November 2020}}</ref>
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====Guatemala====
{{Main|Guatemalans}}
[[File:Italians in The Central Park of Guatemala City.jpg|thumbnail|right|Italians in the central park of Guatemala City (1900).]]
In the recent 2018 Census, those mestizos and whites are included in one category ([[Ladino people|Ladinos]]), accounting 56% of population.<ref>[https://www.censopoblacion.gt/mapas Censo Población y Vivienda, 2018] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217015625/https://www.censopoblacion.gt/mapas |date=2019-12-17 }} INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas).</ref> Into the category Ladino, include part of Amerindians culturally Hispanic along people of mixed heritage, part of mixed Guatemalans could have important European ancestry or being castizo (mixed+white), specially in Metropolitan Areas and the East.
The most common European ancestry in Guatemalans mixed is [[Spanish (people)|Spanish]] descent, but there were [[German (people)|German]] and [[Italians|Italian]] migration throughout Nineteen and Twenty Century in the country<ref name=Schoonover>{{cite book |title=Hitler's Man in Havana: Heinz Luning and Nazi Espionage in Latin America |date=2008 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |location=United States of America |isbn=978-0-8131-2501-5 |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CojTWMNxso4C&q=Hitler%27s+Man+in+Havana%3A+Heinz+Luning+and+Nazi+Espionage+in+Latin+America&pg=PA20 |first=Thomas |last=Schoonover |access-date=27 May 2014}}</ref>
====Honduras====
{{Main|Demographics of Honduras|Hondurans|Spanish migration to Honduras}}
Honduras contains perhaps one of the smallest percentages of classified whites in Latin America, according some census with only about 3% classified in this group.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.5040/9781474205979.ch-003 |chapter=English in Honduras |title=World Englishes : Volume III: Central America |date=2013 |isbn=978-1-4742-9854-4 |first1=Ross |last1=Graham |editor1-first=Tometro |editor1-last=Hopkins |editor2-first=Kendall |editor2-last=Decker |editor3-first=John |editor3-last=McKenny }}</ref> Another census indicates that only a 7.8% of the total population is white in Honduras.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Riaño |first=María Eugenia |date=2019-12-30 |title=Imputación de datos faltantes del Censo de Población y Vivienda de Uruguay utilizando técnicas de estadística espacial |journal=SaberEs |volume=11 |issue=2 |doi=10.35305/s.v11i2.202 |s2cid=212905166 |doi-access=free }}</ref> During the 19th century several immigrants from [[Catalonia]], [[Germany]], [[Italy]] and [[Eastern Europe]] arrived to Honduras. Some of these Europeans were Jews from the [[Russian Empire]], escaping the [[Pogrom|pogroms]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ventura Lara |first=Libny Rodrigo |date=2014-05-01 |title=El templo de Colohete (Honduras) y su significado simbólico |journal=Revista de Estudios Históricos de la Masonería Latinoamericana y Caribeña |volume=6 |issue=1 |doi=10.15517/rehmlac.v6i1.15228 |issn=1659-4223|doi-access=free }}</ref>
Of these the majority are people of Spanish descent. There is an important Spanish community mostly located in the city of [[San Pedro Sula]] and [[Tegucigalpa]]. There are also people from [[Bay Islands Department|The Bay Islands]] who descend from British settlers (either [[English people|English]], [[Irish people|Irish]], or [[Scottish people|Scottish]]). Another large migratory group in Honduras is the Arabs, predominantly [[Palestinians]] and to a lesser extent [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-01-01 |title=Lebanese Diaspora leaders urge Christians Sunnis, Druse to resist Hezbollah – Ya Libnan |url=https://yalibnan.com/2011/01/01/lebanese-diaspora-leaders-urge-christians-sunnis-druse-to-resist-hezbollah/ |access-date=2023-12-10 |language=en-US}}</ref> Many of these [[Levantine Arabic|Levantine Arabs]] were classified as white in national censuses; around 300,000 Arabs live in Honduras.
However, most Hondurans consider themselves as mestizos, regardless of their ethnic category, which is why it is difficult to determine the actual white population of Honduras.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rocha |first1=José Luis |title=Censo estadounidense 2010: cifras e implicaciones de la mayor presencia de centroamericanos en Estados Unidos |journal=Encuentro |date=13 December 2011 |issue=90 |pages=19–33 |doi=10.5377/encuentro.v44i90.598 |doi-access=free }}</ref> According to ''Admixture and genetic relationships of Mexican Mestizos regarding Latin American and Caribbean populations based on 13 CODIS-STRs'', the genetic composition of most Hondurans is 58.4% European, 36.2% Amerindian, and 5.4% African.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Salazar-Flores |first1=J. |last2=Zuñiga-Chiquette |first2=F. |last3=Rubi-Castellanos |first3=R. |last4=Álvarez-Miranda |first4=J. L. |last5=Zetina-Hérnandez |first5=A. |last6=Martínez-Sevilla |first6=V. M. |last7=González-Andrade |first7=F. |last8=Corach |first8=D. |last9=Vullo |first9=C. |last10=Álvarez |first10=J. C. |last11=Lorente |first11=J. A. |last12=Sánchez-Diz |first12=P. |last13=Herrera |first13=R. J. |last14=Cerda-Flores |first14=R. M. |last15=Muñoz-Valle |first15=J. F. |last16=Rangel-Villalobos |first16=H. |title=Admixture and genetic relationships of Mexican Mestizos regarding Latin American and Caribbean populations based on 13 CODIS-STRs |journal=HOMO |date=1 February 2015 |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=44–59 |doi=10.1016/j.jchb.2014.08.005 |pmid=25435058 |hdl=11336/15953 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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====Panama====
White Panamanians are classified as 6.7% of the population,<ref name="PA">{{cite web | title=Panama; People; Ethnic groups | url =https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/panama/ | work =CIA World Factbook | access-date = 2007-11-21}}</ref> with those of Spanish ancestry being in the majority. Other ancestries includes Dutch, English, French, German, Swiss, Danish, Irish, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. There is also a sizable and influential Jewish community.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}
===South America===
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==== Argentina ====
{{Main|Argentines of European descent|Immigration to Argentina|Ethnography of Argentina}}
[[File:Conventillo1.jpg|thumb|Italian immigrants in a ''[[conventillo]]'' in Buenos Aires]]
The ancestry of Argentines is mostly European, with both Native American and African contributions. According to a 2006 [[Autosome|autosomal DNA study]] the genetic structure of Argentina would be: 78.0% European, 19.4% Amerindian and 2.5% African. Using other methods it was found that it could be: 80.2% European, 18.1% Amerindian and 1.7% African.<ref name=Seldin/> A 2010 autosomal DNA study found the Argentine population to average 78.5 percent European, 17.3 percent Native American, and 4.2 percent sub-Saharan African, in which 63.6% of the tested group had at least one ancestor who was [[Indigenous peoples in Argentina|Indigenous]].<ref name=":1">{{cite journal |last1=Corach |first1=Daniel |last2=Lao |first2=Oscar |last3=Bobillo |first3=Cecilia |last4=Van Der Gaag |first4=Kristiaan |last5=Zuniga |first5=Sofia |last6=Vermeulen |first6=Mark |last7=Van Duijn |first7=Kate |last8=Goedbloed |first8=Miriam |last9=Vallone |first9=Peter M. |last10=Parson |first10=Walther |last11=De Knijff |first11=Peter |last12=Kayser |first12=Manfred |title=Inferring Continental Ancestry of Argentineans from Autosomal, Y-Chromosomal and Mitochondrial DNA: Genetic Ancestry in Extant Argentineans |journal=Annals of Human Genetics |date=January 2010 |volume=74 |issue=1 |pages=65–76 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-1809.2009.00556.x |pmid=20059473 |s2cid=5908692 |hdl=11336/14301 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> A unweighted autosomal DNA study from 2012 found the genetic composition of Argentines to be 65% European, 31% Native American, and 4% African. The study's conclusion was not to achieve a generalized autosomal average of the country, but rather the existence of genetic heterogeneity among differing sample regions.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Avena |first1=Sergio |last2=Via |first2=Marc |last3=Ziv |first3=Elad |last4=Pérez-Stable |first4=Eliseo J. |last5=Gignoux |first5=Christopher R. |last6=Dejean |first6=Cristina |last7=Huntsman |first7=Scott |last8=Torres-Mejía |first8=Gabriela |last9=Dutil |first9=Julie |last10=Matta |first10=Jaime L. |last11=Beckman |first11=Kenneth |last12=Burchard |first12=Esteban González |last13=Parolin |first13=María Laura |last14=Goicoechea |first14=Alicia |last15=Acreche |first15=Noemí |last16=Boquet |first16=Mariel |last17=Ríos Part |first17=María Del Carmen |last18=Fernández |first18=Vanesa |last19=Rey |first19=Jorge |last20=Stern |first20=Mariana C. |last21=Carnese |first21=Raúl F. |last22=Fejerman |first22=Laura |title=Heterogeneity in Genetic Admixture across Different Regions of Argentina |journal=PLOS ONE |date=10 April 2012 |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=e34695 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0034695 |pmid=22506044 |pmc=3323559 |bibcode=2012PLoSO...734695A |doi-access=free }}</ref> A 2015 study concluded that 90% of Argentinians have a genetic composition different from native Europeans.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Campos |first=Delfina |date=2021-07-13 |title=El mito de la "nación blanca": por qué Argentina necesita repensar su identidad nacional |url=https://www.redaccion.com.ar/pueblos-originarios-de-argentina/ |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=RED/ACCIÓN |language=es}}</ref><ref name="Homburguer & Gignoux et al, 2015">{{cite journal| title= Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America | year= 2015 | pmc= 4670080 | last1= Homburger | first1= J. R. | last2= Moreno-Estrada | first2= A. | last3= Gignoux | first3= C. R. | last4= Nelson | first4= D. | last5= Sanchez | first5= E. | last6= Ortiz-Tello | first6= P. | last7= Pons-Estel | first7= B. A. | last8= Acevedo-Vasquez | first8= E. | last9= Miranda | first9= P. | last10= Langefeld | first10= C. D. | last11= Gravel | first11= S. | last12= Alarcón-Riquelme | first12= M. E. | last13= Bustamante | first13= C. D. | journal= PLOS Genetics | volume= 11 | issue= 12 | pages= e1005602 | doi= 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005602 | pmid= 26636962 | doi-access= free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Homburger |first1=Julian R. |last2=Moreno-Estrada |first2=Andrés |last3=Gignoux |first3=Christopher R. |last4=Nelson |first4=Dominic |last5=Sanchez |first5=Elena |last6=Ortiz-Tello |first6=Patricia |last7=Pons-Estel |first7=Bernardo A. |last8=Acevedo-Vasquez |first8=Eduardo |last9=Miranda |first9=Pedro |last10=Langefeld |first10=Carl D. |last11=Gravel |first11=Simon |last12=Alarcón-Riquelme |first12=Marta E. |last13=Bustamante |first13=Carlos D. |date=2015-12-04 |title=Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America |journal=PLOS Genetics |language=en |volume=11 |issue=12 |pages=e1005602 |doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005602 |issn=1553-7404 |pmc=4670080 |pmid=26636962 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
Argentina's [[National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina|National Institute of Statistics and Censuses]] (INDEC) does not conduct ethnic/racial censuses; so, no official data exist on the percentage of white Argentines today.
White Argentines are dispersed throughout the country, but their greatest concentration is in the east-central region of [[Pampas]], the southern region of [[Patagonia]],
The white population in Argentina is mostly descended from immigrants arriving from Europe between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a smaller proportion from Spaniards of the colonial period. From 1506 to 1650—according to M. Möner, Peter Muschamp, and Boyd-Bowman—out of a total of 437,669 Spaniards who settled in the [[Spanish Empire|American Spanish colonies]], between 10,500 and 13,125 ''Peninsulares'' settled in the Río de la Plata region.<ref name= Vita >{{cite book |last1=Vitale |first1=Luis |chapter=Modos de producción y formaciones sociales |trans-title=Modes of production and social formations |language=es |title=Introducción a una teoría de la historia para América Latina |date=1992 |publisher=Planeta |isbn=978-950-9216-32-7 |pages=71– }}</ref> The colonial censuses conducted after the creation of the [[Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata]] showed that the proportion of Spaniards and [[Criollo people|Criollo]]s was significant in the cities and surrounding countryside, but not so much in the rural areas. The 1778 census of [[Buenos Aires]], ordered by [[Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo|Viceroy Juan José de Vértiz]], revealed that, of a total population of 37,130 inhabitants (in both the city and surrounding countryside), the Spaniards and Criollos numbered 25,451, or 68.55% of the total. Another census, carried out in the Corregimiento de [[Cuyo (Argentina)|Cuyo]] in 1777, showed that the Spaniards and Criollos numbered 4,491 (or 51.24%) out of a population of 8,765 inhabitants. In [[Córdoba, Argentina|Córdoba]] (city and countryside) the Spanish/Criollo people comprised a 39.36% (about 14,170) of 36,000 inhabitants.<ref name= "colonial census">Fuente: ''Argentina: de la Conquista a la Independencia.'' por C. S. Assadourian – C. Beato – J. C. Chiaramonte. Ed. Hyspamérica. Buenos Aires, 1986. Cited in [http://www.revisionistas.com.ar/?=4283 Revisionistas. La Otra Historia de los Argentinos.]{{self-published inline|date=November 2020}}</ref>
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Data provided by Argentina's ''Dirección Nacional de Migraciones'' (National Bureau of Migrations) states that the country received a total of 6,611,000 immigrants during the period from 1857 to 1940.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1990/1/90.01.06.x.html|title=90.01.06: South American Immigration: Argentina|work=yale.edu}}</ref> The main immigrant group was 2,970,000 Italians (44.9% of the total), who came initially from [[Piedmont]], [[Veneto]], and [[Lombardy]], and later from [[Campania]], [[Calabria]], and [[Sicily]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.feditalia.org.ar/arg/federaciones/feditalia_org_fed_regionales.html|title=Feditalia - Confederación General de Federaciones Italianas en Argentina|work=feditalia.org.ar|access-date=2010-04-13|archive-date=2016-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160502020738/http://www.feditalia.org.ar/arg/federaciones/feditalia_org_fed_regionales.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The second group in importance was Spaniards, some 2,080,000 (31.4% of the total), who were mostly [[Galician people|Galicians]] and [[Basque people|Basques]], but also [[Asturia]]ns, [[Cantabria]]ns, [[Catalonia|Catalans]], and [[Andalucia]]ns. In smaller but significant numbers came Frenchmen from [[Occitania]] (239,000, 3.6% of the total) and Poles (180,000 – 2.7%). From the [[Russian Empire]] came some 177,000 people (2.6%), who were not only ethnic Russians, but also [[Ukrainians]], [[Belarusians]], [[Volga Germans]], [[Lithuanians]], etc. From the [[Ottoman Empire]] the contribution was mainly [[Armenia]]ns, [[Lebanon|Lebanese]], and [[Syria]]ns, some 174,000 in all (2.6%). Then come the immigrants from the [[German Empire]], some 152,000 (2.2%). From the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] came 111,000 people (1.6%), among them Austríans, Hungarians, [[Croatia]]ns, [[Bosnia]]ks, [[Serbia|Serbs]], [[Ruthenia]]ns, and [[Montenegro|Montenegrins]]. Roughly 75,000 people came from what was then the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], with the majority of these being Irish immigrants arriving via "[[coffin ship]]s" escaping the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]]. Other minor groups were the Portuguese (65,000), Slavic peoples from the [[Balkans]] (48,000), Swiss (44,000), Belgians (26,000), Danes (18,000), white Americans (12,000), the Dutch (10,000), and the Swedish (7,000). 223,000 came from other countries not listed above. Even colonists from Australia, and [[Boers]] from South Africa, can be found in the Argentine immigration records.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} The city's motto is "Crespo: melting pot, culture of faith and hard work", referring to the Volga Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and other ethnicities that comprise its population.<ref>{{cite web |title=Economía |url=http://www.crespo.gov.ar/area/conozca-crespo/economia/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926145041/http://www.crespo.gov.ar/area/conozca-crespo/economia/ |archive-date=26 September 2008 |website=Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Crespo, Entre Ríos |language=es |access-date=30 April 2021}}</ref>
In the 1910s, when immigration reached its peak, more than 30% of Argentina's population had been born in Europe, and over half of the population of the city of [[Buenos Aires]] had been born abroad. According to the 1914 national census, 80% out of a total population of 7,903,662 were people who were either European, or the children and grandchildren of same. Among the remaining 20% (the descendants of the population previous to the immigratory wave), about one third were white. That makes for 86.6%, or about 6.8 million whites residing in Argentina.<ref>''History of Argentina'', de Ricardo.Levene. University of North Carolina Press, 1937.</ref> European immigration continued to account for over half the population growth during the 1920s,<ref name=rock>
In 1992, after the fall of the Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and its allies, the governments of Western Europe were worried about a possible mass exodus from Central Europe and Russia. President [[Carlos Menem]] offered to receive part of that emigratory wave in Argentina. On December 19, 1994, Resolution 4632/94 was enacted, allowing "special treatment" for applicants who wished to emigrate from the republics of the ex-Soviet Union. From January 1994 until December 2000, a total 9,399 Central and Eastern Europeans traveled and settled in Argentina. Of the total, 6,720 were [[Ukrainians]] (71.5%), 1,598 [[Russians]] (17%), 526 [[Romanians]], [[Bulgarians]], [[Armenians]], [[Georgians]], [[Moldovans]], and [[Polish people|Poles]], and 555 (5.9%) traveled with a Soviet passport.<ref>
Genetic studies of Argentina population:
*Homburguer et al., 2015, ''[[PLOS One]] Genetics'': 67% European, 28% Amerindian, 4% African and 1.4% Asian.<ref name="Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America">{{cite journal | last1 = Homburger |display-authors=et al | year = 2015 | title = Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America | journal = PLOS Genetics | volume = 11| issue = 12| page = e1005602| doi = 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005602 | pmc = 4670080 | pmid = 26636962 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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* According to Caputo et al., 2021, the study of autosomal DIPs show that the genetic contribution is 77.8% European, 17.9% Amerindian and 4.2% African. The X-DIPs matrilineal show 52.9% European, 39.6% Amerindian and 7.5% African.<ref name="M. Caputo et al, 2021">{{cite journal |last1=Caputo |first1=M. |last2=Amador |first2=M. A. |last3=Sala |first3=A. |last4=Riveiro dos Santos |first4=A. |last5=Santos |first5=S. |last6=Corach |first6=D. |title=Ancestral genetic legacy of the extant population of Argentina as predicted by autosomal and X-chromosomal DIPs |journal=Molecular Genetics and Genomics |date=May 2021 |volume=296 |issue=3 |pages=581–590 |doi=10.1007/s00438-020-01755-w |pmid=33580820 }}</ref>
* Corach et al,. 2010, ''[[Annals of Human Genetics]]'': 78.5% European, 17.3% Amerindian, and 4.2% African ancestry.<ref name=":1"/>
* Avena et al., 2012, [[PLOS One]]: 65% European, 31% Amerindian, and 4% African.<ref name="Heterogeneity in Genetic Admixture across Different Regions of Argentina">{{cite journal | last1 = Avena |display-authors=et al | year = 2012 | title = Heterogeneity in Genetic Admixture across Different Regions of Argentina | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 7| issue = 4| page = e34695| doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0034695 |pmid=22506044 |pmc=3323559 |bibcode=2012PLoSO...734695A |doi-access=free }}</ref>
** Buenos Aires Province: 76% European and 24% others.
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** Northeast Zone (Misiones, Corrientes, Chaco & Formosa provinces): 54% European and 46% others.
** Northwest Zone (Salta Province): 33% European and 67% others.
* Other studies indicate that the genetic composition between regions would be:<ref>{{cite journal | pmc=3983580 | year=2013 | last1=Salzano | first1=F. M. | last2=Sans | first2=M. | title=Interethnic admixture and the evolution of Latin American populations | journal=Genetics and Molecular Biology | volume=37 | issue=1 Suppl | pages=151–170 | doi=10.1590/s1415-47572014000200003 | pmid=24764751 }}</ref>
** Central Zone: 81% European, 15% Amerindian and 4% African
** South Zone: 68% European, 28% Amerindian and 4% African
** Northeast Zone: 79% European, 17% Amerindian and 4% African
** Northwest Zone: 55% European, 35% Amerindian and 10% African
* Oliveira, 2008, on [[Universidade de Brasília]]: 60% European, 31% Amerindian and 9% African.<ref name=Godinho2008/>
* [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]]: 52% European, 27% Amerindian ancestry, 9% African and 9% others.<ref name="Reference Populations: Geno 2.0 Next Generation">{{cite web|title=Reference Populations – Geno 2.0 Next Generation|url=https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/reference-populations-next-gen/|url-status=
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Comparatively, Bolivia experienced far less immigration than its South American neighbors.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}
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[[File:Imigrantes.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Italian immigrants newly arrived in Brazil in 1890.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brazil.org.uk/resources/documents/bs-primary03.pdf |title=Brazil - the Country and its People |publisher=www.brazil.org.uk |access-date=December 3, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021152752/http://www.brazil.org.uk/resources/documents/bs-primary03.pdf |archive-date=October 21, 2014 }}</ref>]]
Brazil is one of the few countries in Latin America that includes racial categories in its censuses: ''Branco'' (White), ''Negro'' (Black), ''Pardo'' (Multiracial), ''Amarelo'' (Yellow) and ''Indígena'' (Amerindian), with categorization being by self-identification. Taking into account the data provided by the last National Household Survey, conducted in 2010, Brazil would possess the most numerous white population in Latin America, given that a 47.7% – 91 million people – of Brazilians self-declared as "Brancos".<ref name="Igbe Brasil 2010" /> Comparing this survey with previous censuses, a slow but constant decrease in the percentage of self-identified white Brazilians can be seen: in the 2000 Census it was 53.7%,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/brazil/|title=The World Factbook|work=cia.gov|date=22 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Brazil.html|title=Brazil|work=worldstatesmen.org}}</ref> in the 2006 Household Survey it was 49.9%,<ref name= "igbe pnad 2006" /> and in the last, 2008, survey it decreased to the current 48.4%.<ref name="igbe 2008">{{cite web|url=http://www.sidra.ibge.gov.br/bda/tabela/protabl.asp?c=262&i=P&nome=on¬arodape=on&tab=262&unit=0&pov=3&opc1=1&poc2=1&OpcTipoNivt=1&opn1=2&nivt=0&orc86=3&poc1=1&orp=6&qtu3=27&opv=1&poc86=2&sec1=0&opc2=1&pop=1&opn2=0&orv=2&orc2=5&qtu2=5&sev=93&sev=1000093&opc86=1&sec2=0&opp=1&opn3=0&sec86=0&sec86=2776&sec86=2777&sec86=2779&sec86=2778&sec86=2780&sec86=2781&ascendente=on&sep=43344&orn=1&qtu7=9&orc1=4&qtu1=1&cabec=on&pon=1&OpcCara=44&proc=1&opn7=0&decm=99 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614225239/http://www.sidra.ibge.gov.br/bda/tabela/protabl.asp?c=262&i=P&nome=on¬arodape=on&tab=262&unit=0&pov=3&opc1=1&poc2=1&OpcTipoNivt=1&opn1=2&nivt=0&orc86=3&poc1=1&orp=6&qtu3=27&opv=1&poc86=2&sec1=0&opc2=1&pop=1&opn2=0&orv=2&orc2=5&qtu2=5&sev=93&sev=1000093&opc86=1&sec2=0&opp=1&opn3=0&sec86=0&sec86=2776&sec86=2777&sec86=2779&sec86=2778&sec86=2780&sec86=2781&ascendente=on&sep=43344&orn=1&qtu7=9&orc1=4&qtu1=1&cabec=on&pon=1&OpcCara=44&proc=1&opn7=0&decm=99 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-14 |title=Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática - SIDRA |work=ibge.gov.br }}</ref> Some analysts believe that this decrease is evidence that more Brazilians have come to appreciate their mixed ancestry, re-classifying themselves as "Pardos".<ref>{{cite news|last=Duarte|first=Alessandra|title=Censo 2010: população do Brasil deixa de ser predominantemente branca|url=http://oglobo.globo.com/politica/censo-2010-populacao-do-brasil-deixa-de-ser-predominantemente-branca-2789597|access-date=24 January 2014|newspaper=O Globo|agency=Infoglobo Comunicação e Participações S.A.|date=29 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140124143702/http://oglobo.globo.com/politica/censo-2010-populacao-do-brasil-deixa-de-ser-predominantemente-branca-2789597|archive-date=24 January 2014|location=Rio de Janeiro|language=pt|quote=(...) A população branca foi, assim, a única que diminuiu. Paula Miranda-Ribeiro, professora de demografia do Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional da UFMG, sublinha essa mudança cultural. <br/> — «O Brasil está mais preto, algo mais próximo da realidade» — diz Paula, para quem a principal razão é a maior identificação de pretos e pardos com sua cor. — «É a chamada desejabilidade social. Historicamente, pretos e pardos eram desvalorizados socialmente, o que fazia com que pretos desejassem ser pardos, e pardos, brancos. Agora, pretos e pardos quiseram se identificar assim. Isso pode ter a ver, ainda, com a afirmação dessa população como forte consumidor atualmente, que se refletiu em afirmação de identidade.» (...)}}</ref> Furthermore, some demographers estimate that a 9% of the self-declared white Brazilians have a certain degree of African and Amerindian ancestry, which, if the "[[one-drop rule]]" were applied, would classify them as "Pardos".<ref>
The white Brazilian population is spread throughout the country, but it is concentrated in the four southernmost states, where 79.8% of the population self-identify as white.<ref name="igbe pnad 2006">[http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/trabalhoerendimento/pnad2006/sintese/tab1_2.pdf PNAD 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222015251/http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/trabalhoerendimento/pnad2006/sintese/tab1_2.pdf |date=2012-02-22 }}</ref> The states with the highest percentage of white people are [[Santa Catarina (state)|Santa Catarina]] (86.9%), [[Rio Grande do Sul]] (82.3%), [[Paraná (state)|Paraná]] (77.2%) and [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]] (70.4%). Another five states that have significant proportions of whites are [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]] (55.8%), [[Mato Grosso do Sul]] (51.7%), [[Espírito Santo]] (50.4%), [[Minas Gerais]] (47.2%) and [[Goiás]] (43.6%). São Paulo has the largest population in absolute numbers with 30 million whites.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sidra.ibge.gov.br/bda/tabela/protabl.asp?c=262&i=P&nome=on¬arodape=on&tab=262&unit=0&pov=1&opc1=1&poc2=1&OpcTipoNivt=1&opn1=0&nivt=0&orc86=3&poc1=1&orp=6&qtu3=27&opv=1&poc86=1&sec1=0&opc2=1&pop=1&opn2=0&orv=2&orc2=5&qtu2=5&sev=1000093&opc86=1&sec2=0&opp=1&opn3=1&sec86=2776&ascendente=on&sep=17795&orn=1&qtu7=9&orc1=4&qtu1=1&cabec=on&pon=1&OpcCara=44&proc=1&opn7=0&decm=99|title=Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática - SIDRA|work=ibge.gov.br}}</ref>
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* 67.9% European; 32.1% amerindian; (Valenzuela, 1984): <small>Marco de referencia sociogenético para los estudios de salud pública en Chile</small>, fuente: Revista Chilena de Pediatría.<ref name="Valenzuela, 1984">Valenzuela C. (1984). Marco de Referencia Sociogenético para los Estudios de Salud Pública en Chile. ''Revista Chilena de Pediatría''; 55: 123-7.</ref><ref name="Vanegas et al., 2008">{{Cite journal |doi = 10.4067/S0034-98872008000500014|title = Consideraciones acerca del uso de la variable etnia/Raza en investigación epidemiológica para la Salud Pública: A propósito de investigaciones en inequidades|journal = [[Revista Médica de Chile]]|volume = 136|issue = 5|year = 2008|last1 = Vanegas l|first1 = Jairo|last2 = Villalón c|first2 = Marcelo|last3 = Valenzuela y|first3 = Carlos|doi-access = free}}</ref>
* 64.0% European; 35.0% amerindian; (Cruz-Coke, 1994): <small>Genetic epidemiology of single gene defects in Chile</small>, fuente: [[Universidad de Chile]].<ref name="Cruz-Coke">{{cite journal| title= Genetic epidemiology of single gene defects in Chile |last1=Cruz-Coke |first1=Ricardo |last2=Moreno |first2=Rodrigo |name-list-style=amp | language = es | pmc=1050080 | pmid=7815439 | volume=31 | issue= 9 | date=September 1994 | journal=J. Med. Genet. | pages=702–6 | doi=10.1136/jmg.31.9.702}}</ref>
* 57.2% European; 38.7% amerindian; 2.5% African; 1.7% Asiatic; (Homburger et al., 2015): <small>Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America</small>, fuente: [[PLOS Genetics]].<ref name="Homburger et al., 2015">{{cite journal |last=Homburguer|display-authors=etal |year=2015 |title=Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America |journal= PLOS Genetics|volume=11 |number=12 |pages= e1005602|doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005602 |pmid=26636962 |pmc=4670080 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
A 2015 autosomal DNA study found Chile to be 55.16% European, 42.38% Native American and 2.44% African, using LAMP-LD modeling; and 54.38% European, 43.22% Native American, and 2.40% African, using RFMix.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eyheramendy |first1=Susana |last2=Martinez |first2=Felipe I. |last3=Manevy |first3=Federico |last4=Vial |first4=Cecilia |last5=Repetto |first5=Gabriela M. |title=Genetic structure characterization of Chileans reflects historical immigration patterns |journal=Nature Communications |date=May 2015 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=6472 |doi=10.1038/ncomms7472 |pmid=25778948 |pmc=4382693 |bibcode=2015NatCo...6.6472E }}</ref> An autosomal DNA study from 2014 found the results to be 51.85% (± 5.44%) European, 44.34% (± 3.9%) Native American, and 3.81% (± 0.45%) African.<ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite journal |last1=Fuentes |first1=Macarena |last2=Pulgar |first2=Iván |last3=Gallo |first3=Carla |last4=Bortolini |first4=María-Cátira |last5=Canizales-Quinteros |first5=Samuel |last6=Bedoya |first6=Gabriel |last7=González-José |first7=Rolando |last8=Ruiz-Linares |first8=Andrés |last9=Rothhammer |first9=Francisco |title=Geografía génica de Chile: Distribución regional de los aportes genéticos americanos, europeos y africanos |trans-title=Gene geography of Chile: regional distribution of American, European and African genetic contributions |language=es |journal=Revista médica de Chile |date=March 2014 |volume=142 |issue=3 |pages=281–289 |doi=10.4067/S0034-98872014000300001 |pmid=25052264 |doi-access=free |hdl=10183/118734 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fuentes |first1=Macarena |last2=Pulgar |first2=Iván |last3=Gallo |first3=Carla |last4=Bortolini |first4=María-Cátira |last5=Canizales-Quinteros |first5=Samuel |last6=Bedoya |first6=Gabriel |last7=González-José |first7=Rolando |last8=Ruiz-Linares |first8=Andrés |last9=Rothhammer |first9=Francisco |title=Geografía génica de Chile: Distribución regional de los aportes genéticos americanos, europeos y africanos |trans-title=Gene geography of Chile. Regional distribution of American, European and African genetic contributions |language=es |journal=Revista médica de Chile |date=March 2014 |volume=142 |issue=3 |pages=281–289 |doi=10.4067/S0034-98872014000300001 |pmid=25052264 |doi-access=free |hdl=10183/118734 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
A Chilean researcher in 2015 stated that "there are no Chileans without Amerindian or European ancestry".<ref>{{Cite web |title="No hay ningún chileno que no tenga ancestría amerindia o europea. Todos somos mestizos" |url=https://www.uchile.cl/noticias/116237/no-hay-ningun-chileno-que-no-tenga-ancestria-amerindia-o-europea |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=www.uchile.cl}}</ref> She also added that the average ancestry was 51% European, 44% Amerindian and 3% African, and that in the upper classes the average Amerindian ancestry was 35.2%.
Studies estimates the white population at 20%,<ref name="BritannicaCL">{{cite encyclopedia | title=Chile | url = http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/article-198552/Chile | encyclopedia =Encyclopædia Britannica | access-date = 2012-09-15 | quote = "Chile's ethnic makeup is largely a product of Spanish colonization. About three fourths of Chileans are mestizo, a mixture of European and Amerindian ancestries. One-fifth of Chileans are of white European (mainly Spanish) descent.}}</ref> to 52.7% of the Chilean population.<ref name="Lizcano"/> According to [[genetic research]] by the [[University of
According to a study performed in 2014,<ref name=":0">{{
[[Genotype]] and [[phenotype]] in Chileans vary according to social class. 13% of lower-class Chileans have at least one non-Spanish surname, compared to 72% of those who belong to the upper-middle-class.<ref name="Revista médica de Chile">{{cite journal| title= Sexual dimorphism in skin, eye and hair color and the presence of freckles in Chilean teenagers from two socioeconomic strata|volume = 130|issue = 8|pages = 879–884| journal = Viviana Zemelman, Petra von Beck, Orlando Alvarado and Carlos y Valenzuela | language = es|doi = 10.4067/S0034-98872002000800006|last1 = Valenzuela|first1 = Carlos Y.|last2 = Alvarado|first2 = Orlando|last3 = von Beck|first3 = Petra|last4 = Zemelman|first4 = Viviana | year=2002| pmid = 12360796|doi-access = free}}</ref> Phenotypically, only 9.6% of lower-class girls have light-colored eyes—either green or blue—where 31.6% of upper-middle-class girls have such eyes.<ref name="Revista médica de Chile" /> Blonde hair is present in 2.2% and 21.3%, of lower-class and upper-middle girls respectively,<ref name="Revista médica de Chile" /> whilst black hair is more common among lower-class girls (24.5%) than upper-middle class ones (9.0%).<ref name="Revista médica de Chile" />
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{{See also|Arab diaspora in Colombia}}
According to the 2005 Census 86% of Colombians are considered either White or Mestizo, which are not categorized separately. Though the census does not identify the number of white Colombians, Lizcano and the CIA World Factbook estimates 20% of White population,<ref name=Lizcano/> while Hudson estimates 37%, a figure that also coincides with the research done by Schwartzman,<ref name= schwartzman>{{cite book |last1=Schwartzman |first1=Simon |chapter=Etnia, condiciones de vida y discriminacion |chapter-url=http://www.schwartzman.org.br/simon/coesion_etnia.pdf |editor1-first=Eduardo |editor1-last=Valenzuela |editor2-first=Simón |editor2-last=Schwartzman |editor3-first=Andrés |editor3-last=Biehl |editor4-first=J. Samuel |editor4-last=Valenzuela |year=2008 |title=Vínculos, Creencias e Ilusiones: La cohesión social de los Latinoamericanos |publisher=Uqbar Editores |isbn=978-956-8601-17-1 }}</ref> forming the second largest racial group after [[Mestizo Colombians]] (at 49%).<ref name="Bushnell & Hudson 2010 pp86-87">{{cite book |last1=Bushnell |first1=David |last2=Hudson |first2=Rex A. |lccn=2010009203 |title=Colombia: a country study |editor1-first=Rex A. |editor1-last=Hudson |publisher=Federal Research Division, Library of Congress |location=Washington, D.C. |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-8444-9502-6 |chapter=The Society and Its Environment|pages=86–87 }}</ref> [[Genetic studies]] estimate that the ethnic composition of Colombia varies between 45.9% European, 33.8% Amerindian, and 20.3% African ancestry;<ref name=Godinho2008/> and 62.5% European, 27.4% Amerindian, and 9.2% African ancestry.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Homburger |first1=Julian R. |last2=Moreno-Estrada |first2=Andrés |last3=Gignoux |first3=Christopher R. |last4=Nelson |first4=Dominic |last5=Sanchez |first5=Elena |last6=Ortiz-Tello |first6=Patricia |last7=Pons-Estel |first7=Bernardo A. |last8=Acevedo-Vasquez |first8=Eduardo |last9=Miranda |first9=Pedro |last10=Langefeld |first10=Carl D. |last11=Gravel |first11=Simon |last12=Alarcón-Riquelme |first12=Marta E. |last13=Bustamante |first13=Carlos D. |title=Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America |journal=PLOS Genetics |date=4 December 2015 |volume=11 |issue=12 |pages=e1005602 |doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005602 |pmid=26636962 |pmc=4670080 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
Between 1540 and 1559, 8.9 percent of the residents of Colombia were of Basque origin. It has been suggested that the present day incidence of business entrepreneurship in the region of [[Antioquia Department|Antioquia]] is attributable to the Basque immigration and character traits. Today many Colombians of the Department of [[Antioquia Department|Antioquia]] region preserve their Basque ethnic heritage. In Bogota, there is a small district/colonies of Basque families who emigrated as a consequence of Spain's Civil War or because of better opportunities.<ref name="Amerikanuak">{{cite book |last1=Douglass |first1=William A. |last2=Bilbao |first2=Jon |title=Amerikanuak: Basques In The New World |date=2005 |publisher=University of Nevada Press |isbn=978-0-87417-675-9 |page=167 }}</ref> Basque priests were the ones that introduced handball into Colombia. Basque immigrants in Colombia were devoted to teaching and public administration. In the first years of the Andean Multinational Company, Basque sailors navigated as captains and pilots on the majority of the ships until the country was able to train its own crews.<ref name=Pastor>{{cite book |last1=Pastor |first1=José Manuel Azcona |title=Possible Paradises: Basque Emigration to Latin America |date=2004 |publisher=University of Nevada Press |isbn=978-0-87417-444-1 |page=203 }}</ref>
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According to the
In Ecuador, being white is more an indication of social class than of ethnicity. Classifying oneself as white is often done to claim membership to the middle class and to distance oneself from the lower class, which is associated being "Indian". For this reason the status of ''blanco'' is claimed by people who are not primarily of European heritage.<ref>Levinson, David. 1998. Ethnic groups worldwide: a ready reference handbook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 346. "Blanco or White is more a social-class designation than an ethnic one, as identification as a Blanco is based on a combination of white skin color, European features, speaking Spanish, residence in the western part of the nation (especially in a city), and enough wealth or education to be classified as middle or upper class. However, in some rural regions, Mestizos refer to themselves as Blancos, to distinguish themselves from Native Americans and Quechua speakers. Blancos form the ruling elite in Ecuador, and categorization as a Blanco is considered desirable by people of full or partial European descent.</ref> According to [[genetic research]] done in 2008 by the [[University of
White Ecuadorians, mostly ''criollos'', are descendants of Spanish colonists and also Spanish refugees fleeing the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. Most still hold large amounts of lands, mainly in the northern ''Sierra'', and live in [[Quito]] or [[Guayaquil]]. There is also a large number of white people in [[Cuenca, Ecuador|Cuenca]], a city in the southern [[Andes]] of Ecuador, due to the arrival of Frenchmen in the area, who came to measure the arc of the Earth. Cuenca, [[Loja, Ecuador|Loja]], and the [[Galápagos Islands|Galápagos]] attracted German immigration during the early 20th century. The Galápagos also had a small Norwegian fishing community until they were asked to leave. There are large populations of Italian, French, German, Basque, Portuguese, and Greek descent, as well as a small Ecuadorian Jewish population. [[History of the Jews in Ecuador|Ecuador's Jews]] consists of [[Sephardic Jews]] arriving in the South of the country in the 16th and 17th centuries and [[Ashkenazi Jews]] during the 1930s in the main cities of Quito and Cuenca.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Ecuador.html |title=Jews in Ecuador |publisher=[[Jewish Virtual Library]]}}</ref>
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The exact percentage of the white Paraguayan population is not known because the Paraguayan census does not include racial or ethnic identification, save for the indigenous population,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dgeec.gov.py/Censos/Imagenes/Cuestionario%20Censal.pdf?PHPSESSID=296abb7abfa015f8241d208aeaed71f4|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20051109214313/http://www.dgeec.gov.py/Censos/Imagenes/Cuestionario%20Censal.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 November 2005|title=Paraguayan Census form|website=Dgeec.gov.py|access-date=8 October 2017}}</ref> which was 1.7% of the country's total in the 2002 census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dgeec.gov.py/Publicaciones/Biblioteca/censo_indigena/Capitulo%201.pdf|title=II CENSO NACIONAL INDÍGENA DE POBLACIÓN Y VIVIENDAS 2002. Pueblos Indígenas del Paraguay. Resultados Finales|website=Dgeec.gov.py|access-date=8 October 2017}}</ref> Other sources estimate the sizes of other groups, the mestizo population being estimated at 95% by the CIA World Factbook, with all other groups totaling 5%.<ref name="PRA">{{cite web | title=Paraguay: People; Ethnic groups| url =https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/paraguay/ | work =CIA World Factbook | access-date = 2007-11-26}}</ref><ref name=CIA-Paraguay>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/paraguay/ Paraguay]. ''[[The World Factbook]]''. [[Central Intelligence Agency]].</ref> Thus, whites and the remaining groups (such as those of African descent) make up approximately 3.3% of the total population. According to Carlos Pastore, 30% are white and 70% approximately is mestizo.<ref name="Pastore 1972 526"/> Such a reading is complicated, because, as elsewhere in Latin America, "white" and "mestizo" are not mutually exclusive (people may identify as both).
Due to the European migration in the 19th and 20th centuries, the majority of Paraguay's white population are of German descent (including Mennonites), with others being of French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese descent.<ref name=EuroParaguay/> Many are southern and southeastern Brazilians (''[[brasiguayos]]''), as well as Argentines and Uruguayans, and their descendants.<ref name=EuroParaguay/> People from such regions are generally descendants of colonial settlers and/or more recent immigrants.<ref name=EuroParaguay>{{cite
In 2005, 600 families of [[Volga Germans]] who migrated to Germany after the [[fall of the Soviet Union]], re-migrated and established a new colony, ''Neufeld'', near [[Yuty]] ([[Caazapá Department]]), in southeastern Paraguay.<ref name=ABCpy>{{cite web|title=Establecerán nueva colonia de alemanes en Paraguay|url=http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/economia/estableceran-nueva-colonia-de-alemanes-en-paraguay-852314.html|access-date=24 January 2014|website=Abc.com|date=26 August 2005|language=es}}</ref>
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The regions with the highest proportion of self-identified whites were in [[La Libertad Region]] (10.5%), [[Tumbes Region]] and [[Lambayeque Region]] (9.0% each), [[Piura Region]] (8.1%), [[Callao]] (7.7%), [[Cajamarca Region]] (7.5%), [[Lima Province]] (7.2%) and [[Lima Region]] (6.0%).<ref name="census2017" /><ref>{{cite web|author1=Carlos Miranda Loayza|author2=Daniel Abuhadba Rodrigues|title=Inmigración Europea al Perú|trans-title=European immigration to Peru|language=es|url=http://www.espejodelperu.com.pe/Poblacion-del-Peru/Inmigracion-Europea-al-Peru.htm|work=espejodelperu.com.pe|date=2007|access-date=18 January 2016}}</ref>
According to a [[genetic research]] by the [[University of
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From 1996 to 1997, the National Institute of Statistics (INE) of Uruguay conducted a Continuous Household Survey, of 40,000 homes, that included the topic of race in the country. Its results were based on "the explicit statements of the interviewee about the race they consider they belong themselves". These results were extrapolated, and the INE estimated that out of 2,790,600 inhabitants, some 2,602,200 were white (93.2%), some 164,200 (5.9%) were totally or partially black, some 12,100 were totally or partially Amerindian (0.4%), and the remaining 12,000 considered themselves Yellow.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ine.gub.uy/documents/10181/35456/MODULO_RAZA.pdf/a5ff8903-19a9-45a2-be66-0c1ae98d4fcf |title=Encuesta Continua de Hogares Módulo de Raza Principales Resultadosde |language=es |date=24 January 2003 |website=El Instituto Nacional de Estadística |access-date=22 November 2020 |archive-date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125232116/https://www.ine.gub.uy/documents/10181/35456/MODULO_RAZA.pdf/a5ff8903-19a9-45a2-be66-0c1ae98d4fcf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2006, a new Enhanced National Household Survey touched on the topic again, but this time emphasizing ancestry, not race; the results revealed 5.8% more Uruguayans self-reported stated having total or partial black and/or Amerindian ancestry. This reduction in the percentage of self-declared "pure whites" between surveys could be caused by the phenomenon of the interviewee giving new value to their African heritage, similar to what has happened in Brazil in the last three censuses. Anyway, it is worth noting that 2,897,525 interviewées declared having only white ancestry (87.4%), 302,460 declared having total or partial black ancestry (9.1%), 106,368 total or partial Amerindian ancestry (2.9%) and 6,549 total or partial Yellow ancestry (0.2%).<ref>{{cite conference |url=https://www.ine.gub.uy/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=0d5d2e5d-898c-49f6-8465-c3a5b606a284&groupId=10181 |title=El perfil demográfico y socioeconómico de la población uruguaya según su ascendencia racial |trans-title=The demographic and socioeconomic profile of the Uruguayan population according to their racial ancestry |language=es |first1=Marisa |last1=Bucheli |first2=Wanda |last2=Cabela |conference=Encuesta Nacional de Hogares Ampliada |year=2006 }}</ref> This figure matches external estimates for white population in Uruguay of 87.4%,<ref name="wsm uru">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Uruguay.html|title=Uruguay|work=worldstatesmen.org}}</ref> 88%,<ref name=Lizcano/><ref name="cia uru">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ur.html#People|title=Uruguay: People: Ethnic Groups|website=Cia.gov|access-date=8 October 2017}}{{dead link|date=July 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> or 90%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dev.prenhall.com/divisions/hss/worldreference/UY/people.html|title=Higher Education - Pearson|website=Prenhall.com|access-date=8 October 2017}}</ref>
In 1997, the Uruguayan government granted residence rights to only 200 European/American citizens; in 2008 the number of residence rights granted increased to 927.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.antipro.com.uy/foro/index.php?topic=13491.0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425062458/http://www.antipro.com.uy/foro/index.php?topic=13491.0 |archive-date=25 April 2012 |title=Inmigracion norteamericana y europea en Uruguay |trans-title=North American and European immigration in Uruguay |date=27 February 2011 |author=triloko }}{{unreliable source?|date=November 2020}}{{self-published inline|date=November 2020}}</ref>
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==Representation in the media==
Some media outlets in the United States have criticized Latin American media for allegedly featuring a disproportionate number of [[blond]] and [[eye color#Blue|blue-eyed]] actors and actresses in [[telenovela]]s, relative to the overall population.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/58525?tid=relatedcl |title=Y Tu Black Mama Tambien |access-date=2008-05-02 |last=Quinonez |first=Ernesto |website=[[Newsweek]] |date=2003-06-19
== See also ==
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* [[Carcamano]]
* [[Castizo]]
* [[European diaspora]]
* [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas]]
* [[Latin Americans]]
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