Which country's whiteness has been more overrated: the US or Argentina?

[Tooting Carmen]

I would say it is a close call. In the case of the US, it has always been more multiracial than many WNs in particular like to claim. One of the few relative constants in the country's history has been the size of the Black population, which has always hovered between 10 and 15% depending on immigration and birth rate trends. In the case of Argentina, most of the country outside Buenos Aires and the Pampean regions is predominantly Mestizo, and would have been even more so prior to the mass European immigration (principally Italians and Spaniards, but also Germans, French, Brits, Croats, Poles and others) during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[Occiput in Starlight]

USA must be more European genetically, surely.

[Tooting Carmen]

USA must be more European genetically, surely.

But it also has more people who are extremely non-European (Blacks and Asians) than Argentina does.

[Occiput in Starlight]

But it also has more people who are extremely non-European (Blacks and Asians) than Argentina does.

Full disclosure: I don't know the stats.

But I figure the percentage of the USA's population with 100% European genetics might be greater than the percentage of the Argentine population with European genetic ancestry over 50%.

[Tooting Carmen]

Full disclosure: I don't know the stats.

But I figure the percentage of the USA's population with 100% European genetics might be greater than the percentage of the Argentine population with European genetic ancestry over 50%.

If you said Argentines 80%+ European in that quote, I might agree.

[Occiput in Starlight]

If you said Argentines 80%+ European in that quote, I might agree.

Compromise at 60 percent?

[Tooting Carmen]

Compromise at 60 percent?

Given that even the average Colombian and Venezuelan is said to be around 55% Euro genetically, no I won't.

[Occiput in Starlight]

Given that even the average Colombian and Venezuelan is said to be around 55% Euro genetically, no I won't.

It will be interesting to see which way it goes.

Good luck!

[Blondie]

USA is whiter by far.

[Incal]

The US has been the Americas' whitest for a while, but at this point I'm not sure if it's lost its crown to Canada...