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  2. Afro-Venezuelans - Wikipedia

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    Afro-Venezuelans are designated by Spanish terms; no words of African derivation are used. "Afro-venezolano" is used primarily as an adjective (e.g., folklore afro-venezolano). "Negro" is the most general term of reference; "Moreno" refers to darker-skinned people, and "Mulatto" refers to lighter-skinned people, usually of mixed European ...

  3. Venezuelans - Wikipedia

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    As of 1981, according to the critic D'Ambrosio and other academics, about 51.6% of Venezuelans are mestizos or mulattos (called Criollos: the 40% of them are with mostly white features, 20% with mostly black features and 10% with mostly Indians features), 45% are white, 2% are black and 1% Indians. According to these scholars, is the fact that ...

  4. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    [21] In the 2000 US Census, "Black or African American" refers to a "person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa." [21] The other three self-designated races are not labeled by color. [21] This is due to historic negative associations of terms like "Yellow" (for East Asians) and "Red" (for Native Americans) with racism.

  5. Venezuelans of European descent - Wikipedia

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    White Venezuelans Venezolanos Blancos; Total population; 13,169,949 43.6% of the Venezuelan population (2011) [1] Regions with significant populations Entire country; highest percents found in Andean, Central, Capital region and major urban-conglomerations.

  6. Demographics of Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    Over time, some black communities have migrated to larger metropolitan areas during the post-colonial period. Indigenous populations primarily inhabit the southern half of Venezuela, the region known as Guayana south-along the Orinoco River. Additionally, Indigenous communities can be found in the Guajira Peninsula and the eastern part of the ...

  7. Moreno Venezuelans - Wikipedia

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    Other Venezuelans, Mestizos, White Venezuelan, Afro-Venezuelan, Amerindian, Spaniards, Pardos, Mestizo Colombian, Latin Americans, Cocoa panyol In Venezuela , Moreno ( Spanish : Swarthy, Brown, Dark) is a broad term to describe those Venezuelans , who tend to be multiracial , typically those who are genetically intermediate between Africans ...

  8. Racism in Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    During this time, José Tomás Boves led an army of llaneros which routinely killed white Venezuelans. After several more years of war, the country achieved independence from Spain in 1821. [1] In Venezuela, like other South American countries, economic inequality often breaks along ethnic and racial lines. [2]

  9. National symbols of Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    Fully coloured with yellow-orange tones except in the head and the wings, which are black with a few tones in white; also has a blue spot surrounding the eyes. It can be found in woods, the Llanos, at the shores of jungles, and in northern and southern Orinoco.