View Poll Results: What is the whitest Latin American country?

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  • Argentina

    120 43.64%
  • Bolivia

    3 1.09%
  • Brazil

    26 9.45%
  • Chile

    29 10.55%
  • Colombia

    6 2.18%
  • Costa Rica

    9 3.27%
  • Cuba

    12 4.36%
  • Dominican Republic

    7 2.55%
  • Ecuador

    2 0.73%
  • El Salvador

    3 1.09%
  • Guatemala

    3 1.09%
  • Haiti

    15 5.45%
  • Honduras

    2 0.73%
  • Mexico

    11 4.00%
  • Nicaragua

    4 1.45%
  • Panama

    2 0.73%
  • Paraguay

    8 2.91%
  • Peru

    3 1.09%
  • Uruguay

    172 62.55%
  • Venezuala

    2 0.73%
  • Other, please specify

    2 0.73%
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    Haiti is the whitest Latin American country.

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    Now on a serious point of views, depends on how you see "white"? You already know the definition of white in Latin America is often quite different from what would you see in Anglo overseas nations (and very different between themselves as well) and it's probably even more different for you as you're from Macedonia.

    In some Latin American countries this "white" identification does not really exist per se amongst national population. I've never seen this abrupt "white" identification ever used in my country, but I know it's used in Brazil, Costa Rica, Uruguay and Argentina, maybe in Chile, Colombia it exists as well.

    But the standards of what is "white" varies in all of these countries for diverse factors.

    Chileans for example identify as White (52,7%), Mestizo (39,3%), Amerindian (8%). Argentina identifies as White (85%), Mestizo (11.1%), Amerindian (1%), Other (2.9%).

    Brazilians as 47.73% White
    43.13% Brown (Multiracial)
    7.61% Black
    1.09% Asian
    0.43% Amerindian.

    But obviously a lot of these Chilean and Argentinean whites are of course Mestizos although they don't identify as such. Mestizo here meaning just a general combination of European/Indigenous in any discernible amount. Argentina has also a phenotypically visible good amount of full Euro looking population but there is simply no way it's 85% of them or more, it would make them more Caucasian than Canada or USA and that's simply not the case.

    I think as a generally more uniform Caucasian standard throughout a country nation would be Argentina, but as I said a lot of them are just pred. Caucasoid Mestizos. However I think in Brazil you can find more towns that are almost all completely Caucasian (even for "American standards") over large amount of territories. Brazil received far more and more consistent immigration than Argentina, and over relatively empty territories, unlike Argentina that had a bigger colonial population. However, as you know, many Brazilians are negroes and mulattos as well in other regions.

    Anyway, I think we can discuss better things in this subsection than just trivial stuff about who's whiter than who.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uhtred View Post
    White Quebecois and Argentinians are known to have Amerindian mix.

    In terms of absolute population: Brazil (93.000.000 whites, being 60.000.000 pure white)
    In terms of percentage it is Uruguay: 85% of Whites
    This.

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    Self declared white argentine...Mauro Camoranesi



    Real White Argentine...general Leopoldo Galtieri


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    This has been discussed like 83948537 times..

    But anyway, if we're talking about the biggest percentage of pure European descendants, it would be Cuba. They had a Jim Crow like system until recently which prevented mixing.

    But if you mean ''whitest'' looking as a whole, Argentina and Uruguay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rusty View Post
    This has been discussed like 83948537 times..

    But anyway, if we're talking about the biggest percentage of pure European descendants, it would be Cuba. They had a Jim Crow like system until recently which prevented mixing.

    But if you mean ''whitest'' looking as a whole, Argentina and Uruguay.
    Cuba was 70% white until 1960, then after Castro taking of the power, many of them escaped in U.S.A. (cuban criollos were the elite class). Now the country is something like 25-30% white.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perduellio View Post
    Cuba was 70% white until 1960, then after Castro taking of the power, many of them escaped in U.S.A. (cuban criollos were the elite class). Now the country is something like 25-30% white.
    If they were 70% of the population then definately only a small percentage of them were the elite class. No elite class can be 70% of the population.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perduellio View Post
    Cuba was 70% white until 1960, then after Castro taking of the power, many of them escaped in U.S.A. (cuban criollos were the elite class). Now the country is something like 25-30% white.
    Yes, I know. But most of those whites are relatively pure, unlike in most other LA countries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hasol View Post
    If they were 70% of the population then definately only a small percentage of them were the elite class. No elite class can be 70% of the population.
    You know better than me how the term "white" can be multi-meaning in LatAm. Is more a social status than a race...also 20% of Honduras are self-declared "white" ...btw, is undeniable that before Castro Cuba was whiter than now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perduellio View Post
    You know better than me how the term "white" can be multi-meaning in LatAm. Is more a social status than a race...also 20% of Honduras are self-declared "white" ...btw, is undeniable that before Castro Cuba was whiter than now.
    What I mean is that 70% of a nation constituting an "elite class" is just factually impossible. Are we understand the term "elite" in the same way?

    Not only the elite fled Cuba. It was basically everyone who supported Batista. Many of Cuban Whites also supported Castro (who is a White Cuban himself.)

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