The Racial Makeup of Hispanics

Repost from the old site. This post has been updated with new information, photos and pie charts showing degree of genetic makeup here. Let us take a look at a subject that most people seem to know little or nothing about – the genetic makeup of Hispanics in the Americas. You think I am kidding? I now live in a town that is 7 I recently informed some of these Hispanics, ranging from wannabe gangbanger graffiti-tagging teenagers in continuation high school and headed for nowhere, to university grads with their own businesses on the road to Yuppiedom, that Mexicans were a mix between American Indians and Whites, and that they were in fact part White. This was met with incredulity and charges of lying all around, most depressingly on the part of the “university grad.” Hence a bit of education seems to be in order. As I noted in a previous foray into this area, there are two opposing poles of idiocy at work here. The first, a group of fools calling themselves Atzlanistas, or radical Chicanos, holds that Chicanos are “8 This is because their idiot ethnic nationalism is predicated on some BS “indigenousness” and related hatred of everything European and White, even though most folks espousing this line are probably majority-White. The opposing pole of morons is of course formed by another group of ethnic nationalists, in this case the White Nationalist faction (What is it about ethnic nationalism that seems make morons out of even the most intelligent people?). It would be very painful to admit that US Hispanics are a lot more like us White folks that these guys want to admit, so they conveniently code Hispanics as a “non-White race”. These clowns, in line with their enemies the Atzlanistas, also hold that Hispanics are 8 The truth will be depressing to both sides, but since they are both infected with brain-rotting Identity Politics, neither will be able or willing to see the truth. The truth is that Chicanos in the US are at present (1998) about 6 Mexico is about the opposite – about 6 Yet another study of Mexican genes found that they were quite similar to US immigrants – 5 So the actual makeup of Mexicans themselves is somewhat of a mystery. Black admixture in Mexico tends to be around 3- However, note that about 20 years ago, the ratio was about 1- Most Chicanos had ancestors that came only from certain states – from the various Mexican mestizo states – the Western States of Jalisco and Michoacan, the West Central States of Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas, and the Northern States of Sinaloa, Nuevo Leon, Durango, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas. Analysis of Mexicans from the Mestizo heartland of Monterrey, San Luis Potosi, and Zacatecas showed that they are about as White as Chileans or Argentines – 78. Mexico is actually pretty divergent. A study of the residents of the city of Tlapa, Guerrero, revealed that they are almost pure Amerindian. Yet I have met several Mexicans from Guerrero who look about as White as I do.

Some Zapotec Indians from Oaxaca. My town is full of Oaxacan Indians, and contrary to the linguistic pessimists in my comments threads, the languages seem to be doing quite well.

I recently saw two young men speaking a Zapotec language outside the DMV. They told me that everyone in the village back home spoke Zapotec, including all the kids, that it was even used in the schools, and that they both knew how to read it and even write it. They were impressed that I was interested in their language. From these facts, a few things become clear. There is a suggestion (unproven so far) that Hispanics in the US are much more White than the Hispanics in Mexico. The more Amerindian Hispanics may be staying in Mexico, whereas the Whiter ones may be coming here. This is precisely the opposite of most of what we hear about Mexican immigration (the poor Indians are all flooding here). There is also evidence that Mexicans in the US are less Black than Mexicans in Mexico. In Mexico, Mexicans are 5. There is a clear suggestion that Mexican immigrants to the US are becoming more Amerindian, more Black and less White over time. This accords with what most honest folks are noticing. Nevertheless, as of 10 years ago, they were still a majority-White people. In fact, Mexico is so bad that even about 8 The Open Borders Lobby wishes to open our border to 55 million Mexicans. You don’t have to be a racist to realize what a catastrophe this would be for the US. I don’t think it would be so great for Mexico either, especially if 8 It is idiotic for Atzlanistas to claim that a mixed-race people, possibly majority-White (6 It is equally insane for White Nationalists to claim that a majority-White (6 Now that I live in what is practically a part of Mexico, I have been observing the Chicanos and Mexicans around me, an interest that sparked these posts. One thing that is immediately clear is that there is no rational way to call this group of people a “race.” This is genetic mystery casserole prepared by a master chef. You see all “types” and gradations and everything in between. You see dark-skinned Mexicans with Caucasian features. You see light-skinned Mexicans with Amerindian features. And I keep thinking I see Black here and there. And every possible jumble in between that you could possibly imagine. It’s actually fascinating to observe them. Since the gene mix was somewhat restricted (mostly Iberian Whites and Mexican Amerindians with a bit of Black), you do see some of what ethnologists used to class as anthropological “types” (although PC has probably made it illegal to discuss types anymore in ethnologies). That girl in the Walmart looks like the waitress in the bar. Then their triplet shows up at the gas station. Even here, the diversity is striking. If one were to play Carleton Coon, you could probably come up with hundreds of Mexican “types.” You see what look like pure-blooded Spaniards here and there, and I am starting to suspect that different Mexican Amerindian tribal admixtures produce different types.

Here is a Tarahumara woman who looks a lot different from a typical Mexican Indian. From northern Mexico, this woman could easily pass as a Navajo. Another Tarahumara woman, this one quite old. Even she does not look like most of the Mexican Indians you see in the US, most of whom are from Oaxaca and Guerrero.This is a Mayan Indian man from the far south of Mexico. As you can see, not all Mexicans are “Aztecs”, as Aztlanista lunatics insist and Mexican government propaganda implies.

Most disturbing to the idiots above is that many Mexicans could clearly be classed as “White” by any rational human being. They may look Mediterranean, Greek, Italian or Iberian, but they don’t look that different from some of the Whites I grew up with. And yes, quite a few are pure Amerindians. Some of these look so Asian that you might think they were Filipinos. Yes, they are short and dark – something the White racists love to rant about – clearly shorter and less robust than California Amerindians. But reduced size is an adaptation to a tropical climate – reduced body size makes it easier for the body to cool off in the heat – and of course melanin was essential for any humans evolving in tropical climes before the advent of suntan lotion. In Mexico, Mexican society is quite stratified, and White nationalists think this is fantastic. WN’s also love to carry on about how “racist” Mexicans are, with the Whites lording it over everyone else and despising all the dark-skinned lessers, except they think this racism is just wonderful, as opposed to the variety directed at their own kind, which is sheer evil.

No, this photo was not taken in Orange County, California. It was taken in Mexico. The spectators are either tourists or White Mexicans. I think the dancers are White Mexicans, but a Spaniard wrote to tell me that they are Mestizos.

That may be true in Mexico, but I have noticed little of it here in the US, at least in the poor, mostly Mexican town I live in. White and lighter Mexicans carry on with darker and full-Indian Mexicans in the bars, and everywhere else, here. I watch them while they cavort and chat, searching for the signs of this horrible racism the WN’s insist is omnipresent in US Mexicans. Problem is I can’t see it at all. I asked around, and one Mexican-American told me that “some” Chicanos in the US have racial attitudes towards skin color, but he acted like it wasn’t common or ubiquitous. Here again, the WN’s would be disappointed. He said most made no distinction between White, Mestizo and Indian (in fact these categories almost did not exist) but instead there was a general, continuum-type attitude that lighter skin was better. He then described a beautiful young “light-skinned” Chicana that he fancied. What struck me as strange is that to my White eyes she was fairly dark. Here is a good example of Mexican racism by an Overseas Chinese author, Amy Chua, from her this study, it is not true that all Whites of Latin America are rich (I can confirm this, as I see many “White” Mexicans who are quite poor in my town) and there are a reasonable (though still small) number of Blacks, mulattos and mestizos in the highest income categories. So the situation in Latin America, while quite unfair and even racist, is not the White Supremacist paradise that the WN’s say it is. It is instead, as most things in life are, somewhat more complicated. As long as we are pondering the racial makeup of Mexicans, let us look around, racially, at the rest of Latin America: Argentina and Chile are the prizes of Latin America for White Nationalists – the populations are said to be “all White,” the IQ’s are nice and high and so are the development figures. Yet studies show that Argentines and Chileans are not so White as WN’s say. This study shows Argentines at 7 Brazilians, curiously, despite the fevered cries of WN’s that “the future of America is Brazil”, are 6 However, see the comments at the end of the post for a probably better analysis of Brazilian genetics showing Brazilians as 5

While the WN’s scream about “Brazilianization”, I prefer “Cubanization”. Cubanization should work just fine. These are typical Cuban women, and most of them are probably mixed-race to one degree or another. As you can see, they are starving, miserable, sickly and clothed in rags, since they live in a Communist Cuban Hell, or so the US media would have us believe. Although 3 I had a Cuban-American girlfriend when I was 19 who looked something like the woman at left. Curious thing was that her father and mother were both a lot lighter than she was. How does that work anyway? I thought that a child cannot be darker than either of its parents?

Costa Ricans, which WN’s love to uphold as an “almost purely-White state” (see This study found Hispanic Costa Ricans 5 Yet another study of Argentines showed that they were 7 Another cast doubt on the notion that many, if any, Argentines were pure White, and suggested that almost 10 However, another found that 5 Tragically, Argentine White nationalists have gone insane over this study and have tried to destroy the Wikipedia article. This is similar to the way that Italian and Greek White nationalists have gone nuts over the considerable evidence showing that Greeks and Southern Italians have ~ Two studies out of Uruguay suggested a considerable amount of Amerindian and Black genes in Uruguayans. Previous studies found an average of 7 Another study of Uruguayans in the Department of Cerro Largo found that they were on average 7 Chile is quite similar – 3

Some Spaniards from Seville. In my town I actually see a lot of “non-White” Mexicans who look like these folks (especially the woman) to one degree or another.

The amount of non-Spanish White stock in Chile is not large, unlike Argentina, where large numbers came from Germany, Italy, Wales, Lebanon, Yugoslavia and other places. Most Chileans are clearly mestizos – 69. The upper classes are 8

As you can see here, most Chileans (every single woman in this picture) are Mestizos, whether they say they are or not. By their complexion and features, it seems reasonable that Chileans may be 2

Amerindians make up a full 10. Chile is a profoundly racist and classist society compared to the US. On the Net recently, I learned of a flame war between Chileans and Peruvians on Youtube. I don’t understand Spanish well enough when spoken to understand the videos, so I don’t know all the details, however I gleaned a bit of it by looking at some Chilean discussion forums. As I can read Spanish pretty well, I got a gist of the Chilean point of view. Many Chileans utterly despise Peruvians, whom they call Peruasnos, instead of the proper Peruanos (that means something like “Peruviasses”). Their main complaint against Peruvians, which they were not shy about making, was that Peruvians are dirty, filthy, inferior Indians. That Chileans are 2 I knew a Chilean once whose father had been in the Allende regime. He was studying sociology and planned to go live with an Indian community as part of his fieldwork. Yet he laughed hysterically talking about the “ugliness” of Mapuches (I looked at photos on the Internet and thought the women at least were beautiful) and claimed that the Chilean poor were poor because they spent all their money on booze and gambling. He also said in Chilean society it was important for a man to have “soft hands” (strange in such a macho society) because this meant that he was upper class and did not work with his hands like a lowly working-class guy. A glance at Chilean economic figures shows a society wildly stratified income-wise by class, far worse than even our increasingly Gilded Age America. And the class attitudes above (reminiscent of, say, the British upper class) are all but absent from even upper-class US society. After meeting that fellow, and reading about Chile, I finally understood why men named Allende and Pinochet led the country for years, and why ferocious class division, and frankly class hatred, continues to wrack that land. This research takes a lot of time, and I do not get paid anything for it. If you think this website is valuable to you, please consider a a contribution to support more of this valuable research.

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222 thoughts on “The Racial Makeup of Hispanics”

  1. Hi.
    I live in North Mexico, and we are mostly white like Spanish or Italian.
    It was because in this part of Mexico Tarahumaras did not breed with Spanish conquistadors for their religion, and Indians were less than in central or southern Mexico. We norteños do not like when people try to teach us Aztecs or Mayan customs. Because our music is similar than German polkas. Our traditions are different than southern Mexican, For example, we prefer Basketball and baseball than soccer, that is because we are taller than the rest of Mexicans, you can google Aracely Arambula or Eduardo Najera, those guys are from Chihuahua state, the most Caucasian with Sonora in Mexico. Even we are very racist with them , Its sad but true, we discriminate them calling them wachos, indians, aztecs, veracruchangos,etc. We the north part of Mexico are more rich and developed than them and they are emigrating here, looking for a job, I am 100% sure is our European side.
    I live in Chihuahua state, it is near Sonora.
    Chihuahua holds one of the largest proportion of white population of Mexico, as is the case in much of northern Mexico. Caucasians make up 60% of the population,[55] most of them of Spanish origin, but also of French, Basque, Italian, Irish, German, Dutch and Middle Eastern descent,[56][57] while the rest of the population are Mestizo groups of predominantly both Spanish and indigenous descent. Amerindians form 5% of the state inhabitants and remain isolated in the forests of southwestern Chihuahua. The admixture with the naitives was never sizeable in Nueva Vizcaya due to the scarcity of natives (most of them warrior and anti-European Conchos and Tarahumaras), and the size of the territory. The most important indigenous tribes of the state of Chihuahua are:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(state)#Demography
    Not only chicanos are white, even we Mexicans who lives in Mexico are mostly white too.
    A study conducted by Mexico’s National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN) reported that mestizo Mexicans are 58.96% European, 35.05% “Asian” (Amerindian mostly), and 5.03% African. Sonora shows the highest European contribution (70.63%) and Guerrero the lowest (51.98%) which also has the highest Asian contribution (37.17%). African contribution ranges from 2.8% in Sonora to 11.13% in Veracruz. 80% of the Mexican population was classed as mestizo (defined as “being racially mixed in some degree”). The study was realized with volunteers from 6 states and an indigenous group known as Zapotecs, with these being Sonora, Zacatecas, Veracruz, Guanajuato, Oaxaca and Yucatán (Mexico is composed of 31 states and one federal district)[75]
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicans#Population_genetics
    Mexico is part of a white and western country, we like bullfights, eat with forks and spoons, eat pork, cows, charreadas( spanish sport), basque pelota( another spanish sport), mariachi( similar than any european band) , spanish guitars, horses, European architecture,etc. We love Europe!.
    We have glorietas like in Spain, we admire the white race because our , tv actresses, presidents which are mostly European like Vicente Fox.
    And even our father of Mexico was Miguel Hidalgo, a criollo, or full white Mexican like me.
    We Mexicans are happy being more European than aztec or mayan.
    Now Spaniards have crisis and they are emigrating to Mexico, to his greatest son again.

      1. http://www.unz.com/garellano/why-are-the-mexicans-in-new-york-so-polite/
        A response I got to that comment
        “ntelligent Dasein says: • Website
        November 25, 2015 at 12:15 am GMT
        @Robert S
        “Robert, that was a very good description and it squares well with my personal experience. I thought those were just my own self-formulated mental categories into which I placed the Mexicans of my acquaintance. I didn’t know they had actual names and were something like officially recognized socio-economic classes.”

  2. Didn’t notice anyone commenting on the New Mexico Hispanos of whom I am a descendant from. My direct lines left N.M. around 1870 to northern Arizona; my generation grew up in southern Arizona where we identified as “Mexican”, or Mexican-American (in Northern Arizona they id as “Spanish-American). During the time in so Az we were not allowed to say we were American, so we id as Mexican even if we were not; this is a story for another forum.
    With DNA testing, those “pure Spanish” New Mexico Hispanos are turning out to be Indigenous Americans. I am about
    30% Indigenous DNA,
    47% Iberian,
    15% Italian/Greek
    4% Euro Jewish,
    3% Irish, 1% Caucaus
    0% sub-Saharan Black
    In Mexico= I’m white “Gringo/a
    In Spain= They think I’m from Northern Spain=Galician
    In the USA- They think I am Irish ancestry (at times people think I’m of Swedish ancestry, but mostly Irish).
    Two of my siblings look Italian/Greek. Aunts/Uncles on both sides are the same, they look mostly western/northern European, some look Greek/Italian.
    2 Grandparents blue eyed-fair, and 2 Grandparents brown eyed-fair
    So where is my 30% Indigenous hiding? My Indigenous roots start in Mexico about 1517, and end up in mostly Zuni in New Mexico about mid to late 1500s. Seems 30% Indigenous blood is ALOT considering that there are Reservation Tribes in the USA that don’t even require them to have any Indigenous blood, only a link to the past (these tribes show 0 Indigenous DNA and 100% western or northern Euro DNA! ).

    1. Based on varying sources on medians/averages family history and some revised speculation, I am probably about 91% European, 4% North African, 4% Taino and 1% black and I could not pass in Northern Spain. My European portion probably includes some Greek and Southern Iberian that’s why….

  3. Poor American whites ALSO tend to have some percentage of American Indian blood.
    Hillbillies, white trash etc. are usually more American Indian than the average suburbanite on the West or East Coasts.
    My theory is that the dimmer white males from Europe or Britain had no option but to couple with Native American women as white women were of higher premium and no wastrel in colonial days could marry one.
    Being part American Indian is sort of synonymous with being white trash, I have noticed.
    Not ALL white Americans with American Indian blood are white trash but nearly all white trash are part American Indian.
    Cuban whites tend to be much more successful than other Latino groups in the US.

    1. At distance, I think that many of those “hillbillies” were very racist or, at least, closed to mix with Amerindians. Many European immigrants in the Americas (especially that ones from 19th or 20th centuries that went to live to small towns and countryside) usually form families with people of their same nationality or national origins. And, in United States, I think that Indian Wars made Amerindians more undesirable.

  4. Mexico and Central America attracted the dregs of Spain and mostly soldiers or prostitutes in the bargain. Brazil was Portugal’s Australia for vagrants and criminals.
    Cubans and Argentinian people are from Northern Spain as oppose to Moorish-blooded Andalusia and this might also have a significant role.
    Cuba, Chile and Argentina were settled by families from Italy and Spain who were workers and housewives as oppose to wastrels and hookers 50 miles North of Morocco.

    1. You left out when America became Mexico’s Australia. If they really don’t want these criminals, why don’t they kill them themselves? That way, they LOSE criminals, we don’t GAIN the criminals, and they don’t GAIN a bad reputation by those criminals’ actions being associated with ALL Mexicans?

      1. EPGAH. Seriously. They can’t just start a Eugenics program there.
        You realize,whether low IQ neocons want to address it or not, the U.S. was the first Australia.
        If it wasn’t for regression to the mean Americans would be fleeing to Inidgenous run Mexico to work as the underclass alongside the Iberian descened people (they’d be low IQ, too)…

  5. Mexican Indians are more similar to Pacific Islanders than “Siberians” and there might be some truth to the Kon Tiki theory.
    Hispanics who look like Andy Garcia are not who you fear at the bus stop, it is ones who look like Danny Trejo that you worry might start flinging knives.
    Wealthy pure Spanish Mexicans or Germans born in Mexico DISPLAY NONE of the pathology we associate with Aztec Mestizos-alcoholism and drug abuse, teen pregnancy, no moral sense, gang violence.
    “Hispanos” are often Jewish converts fleeing North and are more similar to a Queens landlord than an Aztec criminal in the barrio. Language is all they have in common.
    That is not to say that Mexicans who look like Vicente Fox have helped things much and are the real reason Indians flee North in desperation.

    1. Wow, so you made 3 comments that basically White genetic admixture makes people better-behaved?
      And I beg to differ with your last one, the ones fleeing north usually ARE criminals, more than just invading without permission, particularly pederast rapists. Oh, and don’t forget the murderers!
      http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/11/15/gulf-cartel-continues-kidnapping-innocent-people-near-texas-border/
      http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/21/teenage-girl-sold-sex-slave-texas-4000-say-police/
      http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/12/13/honduran-sexual-predator-caught-illegally-re-entering-texas-shortly-deportation/
      http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/03/us/san-francisco-killing-suspect-immigrant-deported/
      Look up Humberto Leal Garcia, for both at once! This is one “twofer” that even America’s bargain-obsessed culture could do well without!

  6. Why would Mexican airline pilots or business owners sell the farm to come to Texas or Arizona?
    Do these criminals look like Andy Garcia or like Danny Trejo?
    SCARFACE made this point 30 years ago anyhow.

  7. Spanish citizens loathe Mexico and never go there. Hispanics who commit crimes in America are Indians or perhaps Mestizos.
    Show me a Spaniard whose parents are from Seville who commits crimes in California.
    Argentinians have as much Italian in them as Spanish. From Naples.
    It is Indians who commit appalling crimes in America.
    They seem to be more ferocious than our own Indians on reservations.

  8. We all agree that a tiny white minority in Mexico and Central America have the indigenous people and mestizo under their thumb.
    Why can’t Anglo follow their example?
    My guess is that Spanish people in Mexico are not robbed by Cholos.
    Argentinians, partly Italian, do not suffer from illegal immigration or let Indians reconquer them.
    What are the Iberian elite of Central America doing right?

  9. Criollo people do not seem to face howling mobs of Aztecs demanding their land back around their Haciendas in Mexico City.
    Why are Aztecs and Mayans howling at Anglo people in Southern California instead of a Spanish-Irish (There seems to be a great deal of Irish in the Mexican upper-classes for some unknown reason) plutocrat/kleptocracy-despot like Fox.
    Since Vincente Fox and other wealthy Mexicans clearly despise the Aztecs and Mayans and frequently dispatch their soldiers to quell their occasional uprisings down South it is clearly obvious they are not on the side of the Amerindian.

    1. Spain and Ireland had strong ties. Irish conquistadors have been documented. Some elite Cuban families were Irish. I believe the Irish thrived under Spanish and Mexican rule in the SW. Pat Flannery explores some Ireland and Spain connections on Youtube.

      1. You may notice that I edit your comments too, PB. Your English is just fine. In fact, it is rather poetic. However it rather flows on in this stream of conscious manner that is fine for a novel or especially a poem but not so good in the comments of a blog. Mostly I change the paragraph structure to make it flow better. I also change the punctuation around. Paragraph structure and punctuation are all I really do with your stuff.

        It’s aesthetic, but if you wish to gain insight from it to modify your writing style, I would not be against it. Flow is a nice thing for a writer to know and it’s damn hard to get it right. That’s where my journalism background comes in handy and journalism is all about the flow. In fact a piece of journalism that does not flow properly is not just bad style. Instead it is out and out wrong!

        1. Yeah, I mostly post through my tv. It may change very way I post. No paragraphs or cutting/pasting. I was good at English but not at your level. I think if I keep comments short and sweet there’ll be less errors. Sry for making messes. I do engage in posting a haystack of jumble to get a needle of quality. This is “Beyond Highbrow” after all.

  10. There is no Red Man vs White Man war in Mexico and yet the Indians howl about La Raza in Southern California to the Anglo-Saxon.
    Why aren’t they howling at the Irish-Spanish criollo like Fox in his hacienda?

  11. GAY STATE GIRL might agree that some Mexicans look quite Sephardic Jewish. Especially in New Mexico and East Texas.

  12. Your blog is a breath of fresh air — especially relevant today with all the imbecile alt-right attacking from their moms basements. You’re right that “Mexicans” and “whites” are hardly different from each other. Maybe that’s the true reason they hate Mexicans so much: too much like themselves! Great job!

    1. LUIS most Americans know Spaniards from Spain are White, or at least Arab, but they automatically assume all White Latin Americans are mixed and therefore all of Latin America from the Rio Grande to the Tierra Del Fuego are non-White using the one drop rule.
      But a large source of this is the criollos elite who wants to disguise the fact that they are engaging in minority rule.
      we must look at the mirror for blame, ese.

      1. JUANNY
        If Mexico and Central America did not have illegal immigration they would be dealing with a non-stop race war.
        Cypress Hill’s NY Italian singer pretends to Hispanic for this very reason: Indians and Mestizos and Filipinos will respect a Criollo and this is why Sicilians in Texas or California pretends to be Vato.

  13. Don’t be fool by the Aztlanist, brown beret, Mexica movement people. Though they may have some Amerindian DNA to various degrees, maybe the most 40-50 %, but that don’t make anyone Native American. What tribe do they belong too? They all want to say Aztec or Maya. How factual is that? Who exactly in their family was? When was that? That is like all American Blacks wanted to be Egyptian when they were nowhere close.
    There were hundreds of native groups in the region what we know as Mexico. Now, many were exterminated. Out of that, only 62 groups remain. That’s 12 million Indians. Each group has its own language, customs, traditions, history, religious interpretation, mannerisms, outlook of the world way different from the the rest of the population of mexico. Plus these guys cannot just read a book one day and say they are native American when their whole lives never did any of their immediate relatives they know or knew.
    It’s not fair to the actual Native American people of Mexico who for 500 years have had to be isolated and discriminated against just to hold on to their identity for somebody to just wake up one day and say I’m one of you guys. I’m Tarahumara 100%. Both mother and father are and also their parents and so on. I speak the language fluently like them. There are about 120,000 Tarahumara in the state of Chihuahua with a few in bordering states.

  14. Hey Robert, I found the Chilean girls pic quite hilarious, I’m a Chilean myself, as I realized it was taken some time in the late 70`s. Just checked the announcement just over the pick up, that red one with white characters, which reads “lo llaman dólares”, some crappy 1977 movie starred by Terence Hill and Jackie Gleason originally titled “Mr Billion”, there you go. Hope they are all doing fine these days, 40 years on.
    Taking a look at their facial features and the clothes they are wearing, they seem to be the typical Chilean lower-middle class chicks, daughters of working class parents probably going for the first degree diploma in their respective families.
    Chilean society is heavily stratified and has been since the very start as a nation. You’ll find this easy to spot just watching random casual group pictures. The more mestizo people who show up on any given pic, the lower on the social scale they are. The opposite happens if you spot more White people. Roughly, of course, that’s not any sort of strict rule.
    I would say about one-third of Chileans have European looks, the rest are a mixed bag. This makes it difficult if not impossible to define accurately the population’s ethnic components at least physically. Genetically speaking, some research has shown that 92% of Chileans have Amerindian genes to some degree, but gradual miscegenation since the 19th century, mainly with Spaniards but also Croatian, German, Palestinian, British, and Italian immigrants, make the task extremely complex.

    1. CHRISTIAN
      If Chile and other Latin American countries fought for Independence From Spain why is it that the pure Spanish descendants end up running the countries.
      Why did the Indians and Mestizos have Independence if they are going to be at the bottom of a Hacienda system run by people who look like Charlie Sheen?

  15. Do you have a recent study of the racial makeup of the Venezuelans? I’m interesed.

    1. Yes I do as a matter of fact, but I will have to dig it out. Pretty much a mix between White, Indian, and Black. Colombians are very similar.

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