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The Truth About Race In Latin America

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What race are Latin Americans? Find out about the three ancestral populations that gave birth to modern Latinos.
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🧪 Studies

Asgari et al., 2022. Higher native Peruvian genetic ancestry proportion is associated with tuberculosis progression risk.
Horimoto et al., 2021. POS-424 Genetic Admixture of U.S. Hispanics from Central America.
Simão et al., 2021. The Ancestry of Eastern Paraguay: A Typical South American Profile with a Unique Pattern of Admixture.
Souza et al., 2019. A systematic scoping review of the genetic ancestry of the Brazilian population.
Zambrano et al., 2019. The three-hybrid genetic composition of an Ecuadorian population using AIMs-InDels compared with autosomes, mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome data.
Aguilar-Velázquez et al., 2018. Forensic parameters and admixture in Mestizos from five geographic regions of Mexico based on 20 autosomal STRs (Powerplex 21 system).
Chacón-Duque et al., 2018. Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance.
Fortes-Lima et al., 2018. Exploring Cuba’s population structure and demographic history using genome-wide data.
Norris et al., 2018. Genetic ancestry, admixture and health determinants in Latin America.
Bermejo et al., 2017. Subtypes of Native American ancestry and leading causes of death: Mapuche ancestry-specific associations with gallbladder cancer risk in Chile.
Kirkegaard et al., 2017. Admixture in Argentina.
Castro Pérez et al., 2016. Genetic Ancestry of the Panamanian Population: Polymorphic Structure, Chibchan Amerindian Genes; and Biological Perspectives on Diseases.
Kirkegaard et al., 2016. Admixture in the Americas: Regional and National Differences.
Ossa et al., 2016. Outlining the Ancestry Landscape of Colombian Admixed Populations.
Bonilla et al., 2015. Breast cancer risk and genetic ancestry: a case–control study in Uruguay.
Hamburger et al., 2015. Genomic Insights into the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America.
Montinaro et al., 2015. Unravelling the hidden ancestry of American admixed populations.
Marcheco-Teruel et al., 2014. Cuba: Exploring the History of Admixture and the Genetic Basis of Pigmentation Using Autosomal and Uniparental Markers.
Ruiz-Linares et al., 2014. Admixture in Latin America: Geographic Structure, Phenotypic Diversity and Self-Perception of Ancestry Based on 7,342 Individuals.
Moreno-Estrada et al., 2013. Reconstructing the Population Genetic History of the Caribbean.
Taboada-Echalar et al., 2013. The Genetic Legacy of the Pre-Colonial Period in Contemporary Bolivians.
Galanter et al., 2012. Development of a Panel of Genome-Wide Ancestry Informative Markers to Study Admixture Throughout the Americas.
Suarez-Kurtz et al., 2010. Pharmacogenetics in the Brazilian Population.
Morera et al., 2003. Gene admixture in the Costa Rican population.

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@gustavog.hasegawa5360 1 year ago

Brazilian here, my father's family is 100% Japanese, while my mother's side has Portuguese, indigenous and Croats.
My wife is part German, Portuguese and Indigenous

@zoren1900 1 year ago

LATINOS come in every skin color, facial features, eye color, height, hair texture etc. BUT one thing we do have is humor.

@ignacioaldao3293 1 year ago

Nobody in Latam says “German brazilian” “italian argentinian” “basque colombian”
We don’t make differences: we are brazilian, argentinian or colombian.

@an0N1M921 1 year ago

We just hate each other based on football teams, not on race

@uuclless6174 1 year ago

Latin America has the biggest European, African, Middle Eastern and East Asian diaspora in the world. People came from EVERYWHERE.

@gabrielvpy 2 years ago

Paraguayan here. I look white AF. 72% Southern European, 25% Guarani, 3% miscellaneous. But 100% latino because latino is about culture, not race.

@nan5 2 years ago

In Latin America it doesn't matter if you are black, white, meztiso, indigenous or mulatto. The only thing we know is that we have all been poor at some point. 💀👍🏽

@chrisr6142 1 year ago

Hispanoamerican social classification fluidity makes the Anglo mind explode.

@Amypond1234 2 years ago

Dominican: 44% Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, 43% African, the rest is Taino, Italian, Welsh and Sephardic Jewish.

@du3844-m4v 2 years ago

Latino only exists in the context of the United States, not in Latin America.

@camms96 2 years ago (edited)

One thing which is also important to note is that most Latin American families can be composed of people with different attributes depending on those genes, something that Disney's "Encanto" nailed perfectly- whereas a couple of your relatives can be white as snow, some can be very tan and vary in features wildlyyyy
Update: Don't fight ffs, if your family has a very preserved gene pool that's cool, some countries do in fact have a majority of a certain ethnicity (Peru and Bolivia being prime examples) but many of us have a very diverse one and come in all sizes and colours because of massive immigration and mixing lmfao.

@areallycoolaccount 1 year ago

In America: "What are you?" "Im 25% black, 25% dutch, 10% spanish and 40% portugese."
In LATAM: "What are you?" "Poor."

@fernando_cravo 2 years ago (edited)

Black people here in Brazil have a great portion of european DNA. Neguinho da Beija-Flor, a known black samba singer, has almost 70% of european genes, for example. It's crazy.

@ThigaostumasSwarr 2 years ago

Glad that you dive into the genetics of the indigenous amerindians

@lapetitefleur3482 2 years ago

My mother is Peruvian and my father Salvadorian. I got 80% indigenous, 17% Spanish and 3% African which is veryyyyy close to the stats that was given for Peru- lol.

@GloriaDuran-dw3qx 1 year ago

Most of the Venezuelans have some indigenous ancestry.

@Luma.123 2 years ago

You didn't mention Venezuela, but it is one of the most mixed countries on the continent, along with Colombia and Brazil. On the street you will find people with all kinds of features. Although our indigenous population is very low, the interbreeding between indigenous people, Europeans and Africans is very high. For decades, Venezuela was an oasis that received immigrants, including Italians, Portuguese and Spanish.