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Most of them have Caucasian genes, but they are mostly considered a mix of Native American and Caucasian people:
Most Mexicans are Mestizos, people of mixed European ("White") and Native American background. They account for 60-80% of the Mexican population (between 67 up to 90 million in 2010).
The Native American, or Amerindian population ranges from 10% to 30% of the population (between 11 and 34 million in 2010) and such people are the descendants of Native American peoples who inhabited Mexico before the arrival of Europeans during the 16th century. Some ethnic groups including this classification are the Nahuatl, Maya, Zapotec, Mixtec, Otomi and Totonac.
There is also a percentage of Mexicans of white European ancestry, representing 9 to 17% of the population (10 up to 19 million in 2010).
What else can I help you with?
What race would Mexicans be considered?
No. Mexican is a nationality.
Do white men hate Mexicans?
Mexicans who are racist very likely do, but not all Mexicans hate Caucasians. In fact, roughly 10-20% of Mexico's population is of European descent.
What is the relation between the Filipino to to Mexicans?
The same you would find between Indians and South Africans: both ethnicities are non-caucasian.
What is the difference between Spanish and Mexican?
Mexicans are from Mexico and Spaniards are from Spain. Mexico is in North America and Spain is in Europe. Spanish is the name of a language that oroiginates in Spain and is spoken in many other countries, including in Mexico. Mexican is a word referring to a person from Mexico, or to something that is related in some way to Mexico. Spaniards are Caucasian and Mexicans can be Caucasian or of Native American descent, or both.
Is Mexican Caucasian?
Some of them are. The racial composition of Mexico is the following:Mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%,White 9%,Other 1%There are about 10,009,062 white/Caucasian Mexicans out of a total population of 111,211,789.
Can a Mexican be considered caucasian?
In terms of racial classification, caucasian typically refers to people of European descent. However, Mexico is a country with a diverse population that includes individuals of various racial backgrounds due to historical interactions such as colonization. Some Mexicans may have European ancestry and could be considered caucasian in a broader sense.
What do you call a Mexican and Asian?
It depends on the specific nationality. As for race, there are Mexicans of several ethnic backgrounds, including mestizo, caucasian, middle-eastern and even Asian ancestry.
Do Mexicans pick lettuce?
Yes, but not because they wanted to. They were to forced by Caucasian slave owners. The "picking of the lettuce" is a term to describe the manual labor they had to do a poorly treated immigrants.
What are you if I'm Italian ie Chinese are Asian White are Caucasian Mexicans are Hispanic there's islander but when you fill forms out there's no category for European?
Italian and European people are considered to beCaucasian.
Why do Mexicans wear mustaches?
Many of them do, but it is not a special or definitive trait of all Mexicans. Such belief is known as a stereotype, like that one stating that most Frenchmen wear a blue beret over their heads.
What colour eyes if mother is Mexican and father Caucasian?
"Mexican" is not an ethnic group but a nationality. If you mean mestizo mother (half Native American, half European Spaniard) the eyes of the children could be brown (75% of probability) or blue-green (25%).Besides, there is a 9% of Mexicans that are "caucasian" or white:http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Mexican
Do you capitalize caucasian?
Yes. It should be Caucasian.
