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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 [39] [40] by Hernán Cortés, his troops and a number of indigenous city-states who were ...
White people in Bolivia are classified as 5% of the nation's population. [69] The white population consists mostly of criollos, which consist of families of unmixed Spanish ancestry descended from the Spanish colonists and Spanish refugees fleeing the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War.
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 ...
The white Hispanics and Latinos who are perceived as "Hispanic" by Americans usually possess typical Mediterranean or Southern European pigmentation (olive skin, dark hair, and dark eyes) as most Spanish and white Latin American immigrants are and most white Hispanics and Latinos are. [45] [46]
The Bush, Obama and Biden administrations all maintained a Spanish version of the official White House site, regularly updating it for Spanish-speaking Americans looking for resources from the ...
The painting depicts a black grandmother, mulatta mother, white father and their quadroon child, hence three generations of racial hypergamy through whitening. Blanqueamiento, or whitening, is a social, political, and economic practice used to "improve" the race (mejorar la raza) towards whiteness. [6]
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White ancestry predominates 13,169,949 (2011 census) [1] 43.6% of the Venezuelan population: Regions with significant populations Entire country; highest percents found in Andean, Central, Capital region and major urban-conglomerations. [citation needed] Languages; Venezuelan Spanish