Official Mestizo/Native population and percentage estimates by country

[Costas]

Chile is Andean Amerindians, in South America we have little influence from the USA, I don't see any similarity with Mexico here

Yeah I agree. Chile is culturally more similar to Peru than to Mexico. I feel closer to someone from Peru than to someone from Mexico, although I get along with both Mexicans and Peruvians anyway.

[TheWolf97]

Puede que Ecuador sea un pais predominante indo mestizo pero tambien existen mestizos netos y yo soy un claro ejemplo. Eso si acá la mayoria de gente se autoidentifican como "mestizos" pero lo hacen para sentirse incluidos en la sociedad y no ser rechazados. Alrededor del 50% de la población son indigenas aculturizados

[Annie999]

Uruguay numbers are wrong. There’re literally no native people here. You can find some mestizos and even them are uncommon and would not identify as native.

[Alexandro]

Uruguay numbers are wrong. There’re literally no native people here. You can find some mestizos and even them are uncommon and would not identify as native.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Salsipuedes

Yes, there is a reason for that.

[Annie999]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Salsipuedes

Yes, there is a reason for that.

Yes.. :/

“ It is estimated that there were about 9,000 Charrúa and 6,000 Chaná and Guaraní at the time of contact with the Spanish in the 1500s. By the time of independence, some 300 years later, there were only about 500 native peoples remaining in Uruguay. The cause of the decline in native populations was disease, as well as intermarriage. With little immunity to these diseases, native peoples and culture were gradually diminished.[7]

Native peoples had almost disappeared by the time of Independence as a result of European diseases and constant warfare. European genocide culminated on April 11, 1831 with the Massacre of Salsipuedes, where most of the Charrua men were killed by the Uruguayan army on the orders of President Fructuoso Rivera, and the remaining 300 Charrua women and children were divided as household slaves and servants among Europeans. By 1840 there were only 18 surviving Charrua in Uruguay.[8] According to the history professor and journalist Lincoln Maiztegui Casas, “the disappearance of the Charrúa people was a gradual process that took more than 200 years, and the root cause was territorial occupation by Europeans”.[9]”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indi...les_in_Uruguay

[Hasien]

Uruguay numbers are wrong. There’re literally no native people here. You can find some mestizos and even them are uncommon and would not identify as native.

Lol you are such of exagerada , we know Uruguay Is one of the whitest ameircan country but people with visibly native traits are at least 40% of the population
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I've a dating app and can see millions of people how they look by searching by location. Many uruguayans can easily pass In Colombia Mexico Chile etc

[Hasien]

Yeah I agree. Chile is culturally more similar to Peru than to Mexico. I feel closer to someone from Peru than to someone from Mexico, although I get along with both Mexicans and Peruvians anyway.

Why? I would say racially Chile Is More like Mexico then Peru , you have more mexicans passing In Chile then peruvians for example.

[Annie999]

Lol you are such of exagerada , we know Uruguay Is one of the whitest ameircan country but people with visibly native traits are at least 40% of the population
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I've a dating app and can see millions of people how they look by searching by location. Many uruguayans can easily pass In Colombia Mexico Chile etc

Im not exaggerating. Anyone that has to come to this country knows what you say is not true.

[Costas]

Why? I would say racially Chile Is More like Mexico then Peru , you have more mexicans passing In Chile then peruvians for example.

So what? The fact that country A is more 'racially' similar to country B doesn't mean country A is more culturally similar to country B.

Chile is pretty similar to Paraguay 'racially'. They're mostly Mestizo countries with 'White' (white-passing I suppose) minorities. However, they're not culturally similar. Paraguay is extremely Catholic, whilst Chile is the most irreligious country in Latin America after Uruguay. Paraguayan culture is also related to the fact that it's a rural country (40% rural), whilst Chile is overwhelmingly urban (88% urban).

Additionally, maybe Peru is more indigenous than Chile, but their indigenous communities are more similar to Chilean indigenous communities, since both territories were inhabited by the Incas. Words like 'cancha' (football field) are widely used in Chile even though they don't come from Mapudungun (Mapuche language) but Quechua.

[Daven]

So what? The fact that country A is more 'racially' similar to country B doesn't mean country A is more culturally similar to country B.

Chile is pretty similar to Paraguay 'racially'. They're mostly Mestizo countries with 'White' (white-passing I suppose) minorities. However, they're not culturally similar. Paraguay is extremely Catholic, whilst Chile is the most irreligious country in Latin America after Uruguay. Paraguayan culture is also related to the fact that it's a rural country (40% rural), whilst Chile is overwhelmingly urban (88% urban).

Additionally, maybe Peru is more indigenous than Chile, but their indigenous communities are more similar to Chilean indigenous communities, since both territories were inhabited by the Incas. Words like 'cancha' (football field) are widely used in Chile even though they don't come from Mapudungun (Mapuche language) but Quechua.

We use "cancha" for the basketball and volleyball fields in the Caribbean too. Interesting.