Most people in Argentina and Uruguay are white, and the (indigenous + indigenous-mixed) majorities in some of the other countries aren’t necessarily big enough to be considered “virtually all,” especially when you consider that there are folks with African ancestry there as well.
Comment on Native Americans?
thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 1 day ago
I’d say virtually all Hispanic people have some Native American ancestry. The number of Hispanic people living in the Americas with an exclusively European lineage is probably very small. But, that’s just like my opinion, man.
grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s probably only true if you accept essentially irrelevant amounts of ancestry. If you take 5 generations, there’s likely at least one person 50% or more native in that family, but that would be <5% of their ancestry.
workerONE@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Five generations would be 10 people. If one of them was native American, their descendant to be 1/10 native American.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Generations are exponential, you have 32 5th generation ancestors and 62 total. You’re less than 5% of your 5th generation ancestors.
workerONE@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Hmm yeah I obviously haven’t figured that out yet.