Argentine president: "Mexicans came from Indians, Brazilians came from the jungle. But we Argentines came from boats, boats that sailed from Europe. That is how we built our society".

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[–]CircumsteinRabbi Circumstein 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

How accurate is such a statement, though?

From what I've seen on various pie charts, most of Argentina's demographic is 'mestizo'. Enough to constitute the demographic majority in the vast majority of the country, and almost the majority in the rest of it. The same thing is similar in Costa Rica (once majority White, now almost as dysfunctional as its neighbours, a process which accompanies massive demographic change from majority mestizo countries like Nicaragua and Colombia).

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034695

A set of 99 autosomal ancestry informative markers (AIMs) was genotyped in a sample of 441 Argentine individuals to estimate genetic ancestry. We used non-parametric tests to evaluate statistical significance. The average ancestry for the Argentine sample overall was 65% European (95%CI: 63–68%), 31% Indigenous American (28–33%) and 4% African (3–4%).

They're mutts.

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

So are you