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Spain is home to a significant immigrant population, most of which has grown only very recently. Even right before turn of the 21st century, immigration to Spain was very small: immigrants were only 3% of the Spanish population in 1998, but 10 years later, immigrants formed 13% of the total population. Now, as of 2016, immigrants form over 9.8% ...
The general perception of Asian immigrants in Spain is one of foreignness and “the outsider.” It is not uncommon to encounter remarks about Asians that might seem ignorant and founded on unjust stereotypes. For the most part, however, these marks are not made with ill intentions, but rather, bred from a lack of exposure to the topic.
The term Hispanic has been the source of several debates in the United States. Within the United States, the term originally referred typically to the Hispanos of New Mexico until the U.S. government used it in the 1970 Census to refer to "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race."
Eugenicist Lothrop Stoddard in his The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920) mapped a "brown race" as native to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Caucasus (partially), the Near East, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Austronesia (Malay race [6]). Stoddard's "brown" is one of five "primary races ...
Asian slaves who were shipped from the Spanish Philippines in the Manila-Acapulco galleons to Acapulco in New Spain (Mexico) were all called "Chino" which meant Chinese, although in reality they were of diverse origins, including Japanese, Malays, Javanese, Timorese, and people from Bengal, India, Ceylon, Makassar, Tidore, Ternate, and Chinese.
The term Asian race (in reference to humans) may refer to: . Asian people; Mongoloid race; Central Asian peoples: Turkic peoples, Iranian peoples. East Asian peoples: List of Chinese ethnic groups, Sino-Tibetan peoples, Japanese people, Koreans, Mongols
Most Indians originally migrated to Spain from Africa, while others came from India and even Japan and Southeast Asia. [4] The overwhelming majority of Indians in Spain live in the Barcelona area (over 26,000 as of 2019). [citation needed] According to data from 2021, Indians in Spain number more than 57,000 (0.12% of the total population). [1]
Hispanidad, which is independent of race, is the only ethnic category, as opposed to racial category, which is officially unified by the US Census Bureau. The distinction made by government agencies for those within the population of any official race category, including "Asian American", is between those who report Hispanic and Latino ethnic ...