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Most of the people in Latin America can trace their ancestry back to these three groups.?
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Why do many people in Latin America have African ancestry?
Many people in Latin America have African ancestry due to the transatlantic slave trade, where millions of Africans were forcibly brought to the Americas to work on plantations. This historical migration and mixing of populations have resulted in a significant presence of African ancestry in countries throughout Latin America.
In Latin America people of mixed African and European ancestry are called?
Mulattos
What group was made up of people with European and Native American ancestry in colonial latin America?
mestizos
Who is a mulattoes in Latin America?
Someone of European and African ancestry.
Caucasian latin children?
Yes. Latino only refers to people whose ancestry can be traced back to Latin America (Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America); it does not refer to any specific race.
Is Argentina located in Latin America?
We [argentinians] live in Latin America. We don't speak Latin. We speak spanish =) And some people (as me) speak English also Ethnic groups: white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry), Amerindian, or other non-white groups 3%
Who were the first major groups of people to settle in Latin America after the Asians?
The Portuguese and Spanish.
What are the five ethnic groups that are in Latin America?
The five major ethnic groups of Latin America are Africans, Indians, Mullatos, Mestizos, and Europeans.
The heritage of most of the people in Latin America can be traced back to these three groups?
Most people in Latin America are descended from Spanish or Portuguese colonists. There are also significant numbers descended from indigenous nations and from Africans.
Most of the population of Latin America is?
All of them are composed of three ethnic groups: Native Americans or Amerindians; people of European descent and people of African ancestry. Most countries within Latin America have these three ethnic groups and mixtures of all three of them. For example, mestizo people, a mix of native American and European, makes up the majority of most countries in Central America. On the other hand, South American countries have kept a more pronounced segregation; this has resulted in countries with an overwhelmingly majority of European (Argentina: 97%; Uruguay: 88%) or Amerindian (Peru: 45%) people.
Are Filipinos still Latino?
No, Filipinos are not considered Latinos. The term "Latino" is usually used to refer to people of Latin American descent, specifically those from countries in Latin America such as Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Filipinos are from the Philippines, which is in Southeast Asia.
What are the social groups in latin America?
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