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In terms of race, the demographics of South America shows a mixture of Africans, Amerindians, Europeans, Anusim or Marranos, and to a lesser extent Arabs, Romanis, and East Asians. A mixture of Amerindian and European ancestry is often referred to as mestizo or caboclo/mameluco.
Throughout Latin America, race and ethnicity continue to be among the most important determinants of access to opportunity and economic advancement. Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America represent 40 percent of the total population—a sizeable share—yet they remain a disproportionate segment of the poorest of the poor.
Racial and ethnic discrimination is common in Latin America where socio-economic status generally correlates with perceived whiteness, while indigenous status and perceived African ancestry is generally correlated with poverty, and lack of opportunity and social status.
Latin America's population is composed of a diverse mix of ancestries and ethnic groups, including Indigenous peoples, Europeans, Africans, Asians, and those of mixed heritage, making it one of the most ethnically diverse regions globally . [1]
Race is a highly variable construct in Latin America, where racial ideas typically refer to “Blacks” (Africans brought to the region as slaves and their descendants), “whites” (European colonists who conquered and settled the region and their descendants), and “ Indians ” (the indigenous population that inhabited the region before ...
Based on the best and worst recent data, about 40 million of the 550 million people in Latin America are indigenous and about 130 million are afro-descendants. This compares to about 40 million U.S. African Americans and 2.5 million American Indians.
South America - Population, Ecology, Distribution: The present population of South America is the result of four centuries of mixture among those four components—American Indians, Iberians, Africans, and more recent overseas immigrants—and their descendants.
South America - Indigenous, Cultures, Diversity: Four main components have contributed to the present-day population of South America—American Indians (Amerindians), who were the pre-Columbian inhabitants; Iberians (Spanish and Portuguese who conquered and dominated the continent until the beginning of the 19th century); Africans, imported as ...
The top 5 most populous countries in South America are: Brazil: 201 million; Colombia: 47 million; Argentina: 41 million; Peru: 31 million; Venezuela: 30 million; Least Populous Countries. By far the least populous country in South America is the non-sovereign Falkland Islands of the United Kingdom, which has a population in 2013 of just 3,000 ...
What are the ethnic groups in South America? Latin America is ethnically diverse. In addition to people of European descent, many people with African, Native American, and mixed ancestry make...