Hispanic and Latino Americans: Difference between revisions

Hispanic and Latinos are racially diverse, although different "races" are usually the majority of each Hispanic group. For example, of major US Hispanic groups with populations of over 1 million, in northern Mexico, most people are White or bi-racial having White/native American Ancestry, while in southern Mexico, the majority are native American or of Native American and European Ancestry. In Guatemala, Native American and bi-racial people of Native American and European descent make the majority, while in El Salvador, whites and Bi-racial people of Native American/European descent are the majority. In the Dominican Republic the population are largely made up of people with inter-mixed ancestries, in which there are even levels of African and European ancestry, with smaller numbers of Whites and Blacks as well. In Puerto Rico, people with European ancestry are the majority. There are also populations of predominantly of African descent as well as populations of American Indian descent as well as those with inter-mixed ancestries. Cubans are mostly of White Latin American ancestry, however there are also populations of Blacks and multi-racials as well.<ref>http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/demsem/loveman-muniz.pdf#search='race%20classification%20Puerto%20Rico'</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004488#pgen-1004488-g001|title=PLOS Genetics|publisher=|accessdate=5 March 2015}}</ref><ref>http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/cuba.htm</ref><ref>http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004488</ref> The race and culture of each Hispanic/Latino country and their United States diaspora differs by history and geography. Mexicans represent the bulk of the US Hispanic/Latino population, and most Mexican Americans that migrate to the United States are of Native American and White descent, which causes many non-Hispanics to equate being Hispanic with being of mestizo or Native American ancestry. Official sources report the racial makeup of these Hispanic subgroups as follows, Argentina,<ref name="cia.gov">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html|title=The World Factbook|publisher=|accessdate=5 March 2015}}</ref> Uruguay,<ref name="cia.gov"/> Puerto Rico,<ref name="cia.gov"/> Cuba,<ref name="cia.gov"/> and Chile,<ref name="cia.gov"/> having the highest percentage of Hispanics self-identifying as white in their respective countries (this can include some multi-racials identifying as "white", especially in Puerto Rico and Cuba), usually of Spanish descent. As a result of their racial diversity, Hispanics form an [[Race and ethnicity in the United States Census|ethnicity]] sharing a language ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]) and cultural heritage, rather than a [[Race and ethnicity in the United States Census|race]].The phenomenon of bi-racial people who are predominantly of European descent identifying as white is not limited to Hispanics or Spanish speakers but is also common among English speakers as well. researchers found that most White Americans with less than 28 percent African-American ancestry say they are White. Above that threshold, people tended to describe themselves as African-American.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/science/23andme-genetic-ethnicity-study.html?_r=0</ref>