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White Africans of European ancestry refers to citizens or residents in Africa who can trace full or partial ancestry to Europe. They are distinguished from indigenous North African people who are sometimes identified as white but not European. [1] In 1989, there were an estimated 4.6 million white people with European ancestry on the African ...
This is a list of notable White Africans of European ancestry, including both European immigrants who obtained citizenship in an African country and their descendants.
Estimates of the number of Africans living in Istanbul varies between 50,000 and 200,000. [22] Ankara also has a sizeable Somali community. [23] In addition to this African migrant population, there are 20,000 Afro-Turks. More than 1,000,000 sub-Saharan Africans had settled in Europe between 2010 and 2017. [24]
White Americans (sometimes also called Caucasian Americans) are Americans who identify as white people.In a more official sense, the United States Census Bureau, which collects demographic data on Americans, defines "white" as "[a] person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa".
[76] [77] As the US census defines white people as people "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa", Jewish Americans of European, North African, and Middle Eastern heritage are classified as white.
The United States Census Bureau defines white to include European Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, and North African Americans. [6] Americans of European ancestry are divided into various ethnic groups. More than half of the white population are German, Irish, English, Italian, French and Polish Americans. Many Americans are also the ...
[105] [106] In addition to being found to have 8% Asian and 19.6% European ancestry, African-Americans, who were sampled in 2010, were found to be 72.5% African; the Asian ancestry serving as a proxy for Native-American. [107] Many free African-American families descended from unions between white women and African men in colonial Virginia.
A report from the Pew Research Center in 2008 projects that by 2050, non-Hispanic White Americans will make up 47% of the population, down from 67% projected in 2005. [203] According to a study on the genetic ancestry of Americans, White Americans (stated "European Americans") on average are 98.6% European, 0.2% African and 0.2% Native American ...