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White Latin Americans or European Latin Americans (sometimes Euro-Latinos [24] [25]) are Latin Americans of total or predominantly European ancestry. [26]Direct descendants of European settlers who arrived in the Americas during the colonial and post-colonial periods can be found throughout Latin America.
White Hispanic and Latino Americans, also called Euro-Hispanics, [7] Euro-Latinos, [8] White Hispanics, [9] or White Latinos, [10] are Americans of white ancestry and ancestry from Latin America. It also refers to people of European ancestry from Latin America that speak Spanish or Portuguese natively and immigrated to the United States. [11 ...
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By 2010, the number of Hispanics identifying as white has increased by a wide margin since the year 2000 on the 2010 US census form, of the over 50 million people who identified as Hispanic and Latino Americans a majority 53% identified as "white", 36.7% identified as "Other" (most of whom are presumed of mixed races such as mestizo or mulatto ...
In contrast to non-Hispanic or Latino whites, whose average European ancestry is 98.6%, [116] [117] genetic research has found that the average European admixture among White Hispanic and Latino Americans is 73%, while the average European admixture for Hispanic Americans overall (regardless of their self-identified race) is 65.1%.
Portrait of the family Fagoaga Arozqueta. An upper class colonial Mexican family of Spanish ancestry (referred to as Criollos) in Mexico City, New Spain, ca. 1730. The presence of Europeans in what is nowadays known as Mexico dates back to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century [42] [43] by Hernán Cortés, his troops and a number of indigenous city-states who were ...
Latin American countries (green) in the Americas. Latin America (Spanish: América Latina or Latinoamérica; Portuguese: América Latina; French: Amérique latine) is the region of the Americas where Romance languages (i.e., those derived from Latin)—particularly Spanish and Portuguese, as well as French—are primarily spoken.
An automosal DNA study published in 2019, focusing specifically on Native American ancestry in different ethnic/racial groups within the US, found that self-identified Hispanic Americans had a higher average amount of Native American ancestry compared to Black and non-Hispanic White Americans. On average, Hispanic Americans were found to be ...