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> Also, this extremely strong claim of yours sounds dubious to me, any examples of self-described Latinos with actually zero native american ancestry ? As prove
by rescbr 3y ago
> Also, this extremely strong claim of yours sounds dubious to me, any examples of self-described Latinos with actually zero native american ancestry ? As proved by either reliable and comprehensive family trees going back to the middle ages, or DNA analysis ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Latin_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Latin_Americans
Case in point, me - my ancestors fled Europe in the early 20th century to a Latin American country due to lack of work, famine, wars and whatnot. One of them was Spanish, so by definition, I have Hispanic blood. Zero native american ancestry. You will see that this is a very common situation for many Latin Americans.
For more examples, see the Brazilian government whitening policy right that happened after slavery abolition. Lots of Europeans (Italians, Germans, Poles, Spaniards, Portuguese, etc) were brought to work in plantations and to decrease the relative % of the newly freed Black population.
When miscegenation happened, it was with Black people, as the Native Brazilian population was already decimated by this point.
This also happened in other countries, like Argentina.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoOh, my apologies, I didn't think of Europeans arriving much later. (And it's very unlikely that genes would go from Americas to Europe before the 20th century.)