Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Summary
3. Figures/Images
4. Sources
1. Introduction
Unlike my previous articles on racial/ethnic genetics, this article will not contain a detailed breakdown or history for each region. It contains a few figures/images lifted from studies that summarize the genetics of each country in Latin America. Some countries are missing because it was impossible to find data on those regions.
Unfortunately, self-reported “race” in Latin America often does not align with the genetic data, so I couldn’t use that as a stand-in. I’ve seen a lot of cases where people who are 20% Black claim to be “White,” and where people who are 80% White claim to be “Amerindian,” and so on.
I will update this article in the future when I find more data.
2. Summary
Latin America is genetic chaos, to put it bluntly. Unlike North America, where miscegenation was banned and discouraged, centuries of racial intermixing means that >99% of Latin Americans (discounting recent immigrants) descend from at least two major races, Europeans and Amerindians.
In addition to this ubiquitous “Mestizo” admixture, most Latin Americans also harbor Sub-Saharan African ancestry due to the slave trade, making them triracial. Some even descend from four or more major races, with additional ancestry from e.g. East Asians or South Asians on top of the aforementioned racial groups.
The image below shows a basic three-way admixture analysis for the averaged populations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. As you can see, African ancestry is most prevalent in Brazil and the Caribbean, Amerindian ancestry is extremely high in Peru and Bolivia, and European ancestry is highest in Argentina and Cuba. Judging by other studies, this admixture analysis is a little off in places, e.g. Brazil, but it’s still a good summary.
3. Figures/Images
3.1. Summaries
Continent-wide:
Major South American countries:
South American west coast + Argentina:
3.2. Cuba
3.3. Mexico
3.4. Brazil
3.5. Bolivia
3.6. Argentina
4. Sources
I read a ton of studies but these are the only ones I remembered to save:
Summaries:
– https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4177621
– Genetic History of Latin America: Fine-scale population structure, sub-continental ancestry and phenotypic diversity
Mexico:
– https://bmcgenomdata.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12863-018-0707-7
Cuba:
– https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29851-3
Brazil:
– https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6905439
– https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3779230/
– https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004572
Bolivia:
– https://www.fsigenetics.com/article/S1872-4973(14)00239-7/fulltext
West Coast:
– https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4670080
Thuletide 
I think Mestizo-America would be a better name instead of Latin America or Iberoamerica. The true Latinos are the descendants of the Romans, which would be the Italians and their modern diaspora, the Italian-Americans, the Uruguayans, and the Argentines of Italian descent. I think Hispanic is also an incorrect term, because the so-called “Hispanics” are not real descendants of pure Spaniards, calling them Hispanic is like calling Haitians Gallo-Americans because they speak French and were a French colony. Same with Nigerians and Jamaicans being called Anglo-Saxons, just because they speak English and were a British colony.
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Genetic chaos? That’s very light way to express it. Most of European admixture in Cuba came from Soviet Union sailors. Southern Brazil has the most of Whites and like other countries, it’s the economic engine of Brazil, but more non-whites are moving there.
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European genetics in Cuba come from the Spanish conquistadors and the Spanish settlers, especially the Galicians. The Russians had no impact on the Cuban gene pool. Brazil has millions of whites who came mainly from Germany, Poland, Italy and the Ukraine, many of whom continue to speak dialects now extinct in Europe, such as Pomeranian.
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Pomeranian Germans in Brazil
Russians in Brazil
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We are proud whites in Uruguay and most of Argentina. Not too much race mixing like our neighbors.
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Judging by the studies I have read, Argentina seems to be mostly Castizo, rather than White. ~70% of the population has over 15% Amerindian ancestry. On a genetic level, I would class that as mixed-race and not White.
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Even Messi? He is 15% Amerindian but he could pass as NW Euro imo
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I thought he was Italian? Where did you see his genetic ancestry? But yes Castizos can often pass as European, e.g. Nick Fuentes, but that doesn’t mean they are European, they still have mixed ancestry.
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I agree. There are a lot of white catsizos born form a dark skinned couple.
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But their soccer teams are white right?
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Maybe. The proportion of actual Whites in South America is very small. Most have at least 15% Amerindian ancestry and some minor African ancestry.
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I would formulate in a different way, Latino-Americans who are at least 85% of european ancestry should be considered “white”, because there should be a difference of racial outlook between europe and south america, to the former the “restriction” ought to be more greater obviously
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I think it really depends on the race that the individual is mixed with. 85% White + 15% Amerindian or Middle Easter or East Asian can often look 100% White. But +15% African seems to have a bigger impact on phenotype.
Generally I reserve the term White for people who are ~90% European or more but I guess South American Whites can be classed as a “fringe case” like Sicilians or Greek Islanders.
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Well in sicilians or south italians and green islanders the “exotic” admxiture is given almost exclusively by anatolians, Who were indoeuropeans right? So It shouldn’t be extra-europid
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They have ancestry from Anatolians with Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer admixture, and also from populations with Iranian and Levantine admixture.
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I recommend the work “Labyrinth of Solitude” written by Octavio Paz. It shows how fucked up Mexico is due to genetic chaos.
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Many people here in the comment box are talking about Argentina and their European soccer team compared to the “French” soccer team. Argentina and Uruguay used to be around 80% – 90% white in the early 20th century, due to the massive immigration of Europeans, specifically Italians and Spanish.
In 1869 the total Argentine population was 1,877,490, in 1914 it was 7,903,662. This incredible demographic boom was caused by massive European immigration.
What happened to Argentina and Uruguay, and why are they so different from other “Latin American” countries:
1. They were mostly mestizo countries during the Spanish colonial era, with a minority of criollos (American-born white Spaniards) and a sizeable black slave population, like all other Spanish colonies in America.
2. They were quite underpopulated countries, especially in comparison with the overpopulated Mexico (New Spain), Peru and Colombia-Venezuela (New Granada). The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was full of empty pastures, the only populated places with sizeable cities and a population of criollos were seaports like Buenos Aires and Montevideo. The mestizo and indigenous population lived in Jesuit missions and pastures.
3. The black population practically disappeared in the first half of the 19th century, because they were used as cannon fodder in wars, and also because of the yellow fever that decimated them in their segregated areas.
4. XlX Century criollo elites of Spanish origin were very racist, they had many similarities with the American elites. Juan Bautista Alberdi wrote the Argentine constitution of 1853, he was a kind of Argentine Thomas Jefferson. His intentions were to populate Argentina with European immigrants, he said: “to govern is to populate.”
5.Argentina and Uruguay received massive immigration from Europe in the second half of the 19th century. An empty country of 1 million inhabitants (the majority mestizos) received 7 million European immigrants until 1930.
6. During the second half of the 20th century and the 21st century, Argentina received massive immigration from indigenous and mestizo countries such as Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela. That type of immigration was endorsed by leftist politicians from ideologies such as “Peronism” and “Kirchnerism” in contrast to the conservative politicians of the 19th century who preferred European immigration.
7. The result is that the majority of the Argentine population today is mestizo, with a white minority of around 20-30%
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_European_immigration_wave_to_Argentina
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Many people here in the comment box are talking about Argentina and their European soccer team compared to the “French” soccer team. Argentina and Uruguay used to be around 80% – 90% white in the early 20th century, due to the massive immigration of Europeans, specifically Italians and Spanish.
In 1869 the total Argentine population was 1,877,490, in 1914 it was 7,903,662. This incredible demographic boom was caused by massive European immigration. Today, Argentina is a country with a mestizo majority.
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This isn’t related to this article, but I do have a question. I wasn’t sure where else to ask, as you seem knowledgeable about genetics. I learned recently that I am roughly 6.25 percent Jewish, as my Grandfather’s Grandmother was a Jew. I was wondering if my 6 percent of Jewish DNA has an effect on me. Will I be doomed to act like most Jews do? Behavior is mostly genetic after all, as studies of twins raised in separate families show. Will that effect my behavior and morality, or is it too small a percentage to make a difference?
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Yeah basically too small to make a difference. You’re all good. Here’s an explanation of why:
Their strange behavior seems to have cultural and genetic components.
Firstly, they have a deeply ingrained, highly paranoid culture that they seem to instill in their children from a young age. The two ideas that define this culture of paranoia are 1) they were chosen by god and are inherently superior to all other human beings, and 2) because of this fact, every non-Jew in the world is out to get them at all times. Obviously they don’t all believe this, but it is their broad cultural mythos dating back thousands of years. You can see it in their religious books, movies, articles, etc.
Secondly, they have disproportionately high levels of autosomal recessive disorders due to population bottlenecks and subsequent inbreeding. For example, they carry genes that predispose them to various mental illnesses, like schizophrenia (see image below). Obviously these various mental illnesses contribute to their odd behavior.
However, outbreeding with a non-inbred population tends to fix autosomal recessive disorders. This is because the non-inbred population is less likely to carry those harmful recessive gene variants, which only appear when both parents have two copies of the same recessive genes.
So, if you only have one Jewish great-great-grandmother, you are incredibly unlikely to inherit these recessive disorders, which removes the genetic component, and not being raised in a culture that tells you everyone is trying to killyou 24/7 removes the cultural component. A lot of people with low Jewish ancestry, who probably don’t have any of the stereotypical genetic disorders, often embrace the cultural aspect, which alters their behavior accordingly.
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Thank you, I appreciate you answering.
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As long you can eat a cheese & pork sandwich with no conplications, we’re good.
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Reblogged this on Calculus of Decay .
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I think it would be convenient to point out how the development of these populations occurred during history.
Firstly, unlike US and Canada, almost all of Latin America was made up of colonies that initially had no goals and that later came to be used for economic purposes, since the Iberians did not have enough people to colonize the gigantic territories, as the Puritans did in the US east coast.
In Portuguese America (Brazil), the European population of the first centuries of colonization was mostly male. The only European women in the colony were the governors’ wives:
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“European women were not welcome on the expedition ships, so single colonists had no other options than to bond with the indigenous women who lived here.
The Jesuit priest Manuel de Nóbrega, who arrived in Brazil in 1549 as master of the first Jesuit mission to the Americas, did not like the scenario and decided to change it. The relationship between Europeans and indigenous people was uncomfortable, since it interfered with the Catholic mold of family formation and hindered the dissemination of religious values in the region.
So, Nóbrega wrote letters to the Portuguese rulers requesting the sending of women to marry the colonists and, in 1551, the request was granted. On that date, a Portuguese ship arrived on the Brazilian coast with some orphaned women among the crew.”
https://super.abril.com.br/coluna/oraculo/quem-foi-a-primeira-mulher-europeia-a-desembarcar-no-brasil/
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When the Portuguese realized that it would be impossible to populate Brazil with their own race (portuguese pop right now is 10 million, imagine back then), and that the Amerindians were not willing to be enslaved, they accepted the mass import of Africans.
During the revolutions in Latin America, many banana-republics expelled the Spaniards who still lived in these regions. Paraguay, following revolutionary ideas, forced the Spaniards to mix with other races in the country, banning same race marriage.
https://theconversation.com/from-paraguay-a-history-lesson-on-racial-equality-68655
Brazil (now independent) remained with a liberal-like freemason monarch who later would go back to Portugal to fight (with britain’s support) the new portuguese absolutist king (his brother) and the portuguese anti-frenchRev resistence in there, leaving his kid behind in Brazil who became emperor of the country with 14yo.
Later on, when the Portuguese realized that the region needed skilled labor for industrialization (and more whites/IQ), they encouraged mass European immigration, which whitened the southern region, as well as Uruguay and Argentina.
It’s fair to say that without this last demographic change, the whole region would remain stagnant (you can pretty much see how most of brazilian companies living today were made by euros from this last immigration). Brazil also managed to get the biggest japanese population outside japan in this process.
https://www.ufjf.br/ladem/2015/11/20/a-cor-e-a-raca-nos-censos-demograficos-nacionais-por-adriano-senkevics/
This European population of the Southern Cone followed the same trend of low birth rate that occurred throughout the West.
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I think it would be convenient to point out how the development of these populations occurred during history.
Firstly, unlike US and Canada, almost all of Latin America was made up of colonies that initially had no goals and that later came to be used for economic purposes, since the Iberians did not have enough people to colonize the gigantic territories, as the Puritans did in the US east coast.
In Portuguese America (Brazil), the European population of the first centuries of colonization was mostly male. The only European women in the colony were the governors’ wives:
“European women were not welcome on the expedition ships, so single colonists had no other options than to bond with the indigenous women who lived here.
The Jesuit priest Manuel de Nóbrega, who arrived in Brazil in 1549 as master of the first Jesuit mission to the Americas, did not like the scenario and decided to change it. The relationship between Europeans and indigenous people was uncomfortable, since it interfered with the Catholic mold of family formation and hindered the dissemination of religious values in the region.
So, Nóbrega wrote letters to the Portuguese rulers requesting the sending of women to marry the colonists and, in 1551, the request was granted. On that date, a Portuguese ship arrived on the Brazilian coast with some orphaned women among the crew.”
https://super.abril.com.br/coluna/oraculo/quem-foi-a-primeira-mulher-europeia-a-desembarcar-no-brasil/
When the Portuguese realized that it would be impossible to populate Brazil with their own race (portuguese pop right now is 10 million, imagine back then), and that the Amerindians were not willing to be enslaved, they accepted the mass import of Africans.
During the revolutions in Latin America, many banana-republics expelled the Spaniards who still lived in these regions. Paraguay, following revolutionary ideas, forced the Spaniards to mix with other races in the country, banning same race marriage.
https://theconversation.com/from-paraguay-a-history-lesson-on-racial-equality-68655
Brazil (now independent) remained with a liberal-like freemason monarch who later would go back to Portugal to fight (with britain’s support) the new portuguese absolutist king (his brother) and the portuguese anti-frenchRev resistence in there, leaving his kid behind in Brazil who became emperor of the country with 14yo.
Later on, when the Portuguese realized that the region needed skilled labor for industrialization (and more whites/IQ), they encouraged mass European immigration, which whitened the southern region, as well as Uruguay and Argentina.
It’s fair to say that without this last demographic change, the whole region would remain stagnant (you can pretty much see how most of brazilian companies living today were made by euros from this last immigration). Brazil also managed to get the biggest japanese population outside japan in this process.
https://www.ufjf.br/ladem/2015/11/20/a-cor-e-a-raca-nos-censos-demograficos-nacionais-por-adriano-senkevics/
This European population of the Southern Cone followed the same trend of low birth rate that occurred throughout the West.
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Helpful comment, ty.
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Latinos take a DNA test:
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The mass legalization of abortion throughout Latin America that has been happening since 2019 will have negative eugenic effect on the whole region, as average nonwhite fertility rates in every large LatAm country has now declined to levels barely above, on par or even lower than White ones(Ex. Mexico City recently hit 1.2 low) , which are already experiencing slight upticks because of the prevalence of high fertility families over low fertility ones.
We have a decent chance at long game, we just have to not stop non whites from gobbling liberalist poison themselves.
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Why would you want to stop them from becoming Leftists? It’s maladaptive. I would promote Leftism to them.
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How is being right-wing maladaptive to non-whites in their own countries?
Or do you mean maladaptive to us?
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No, I mean being left-wing is maladpative, so why should we stop them from becoming left-wing? They’re our competitors, after all.
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Ay Bruv i literally said “NOT stop them”
I literally meant letting them go their way so they die off.
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lol my bad
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One interesting thing in SA is that even in countries with a small amount of whites, the left continues to promote the anti-white agenda, even against individuals with the lowest level of whiteness. The middle class is always the target.
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Argentina and Uruguay aren’t majority White.
They received a lot of Amerindian and mestizo inmigrants since 1950s and
those inmigrants had more higher birthrates than the White Population.
Also Argentina have a high percentage of Amerindian/mestizo population in the northern provinces.
https://www.amren.com/features/2017/04/argentina-a-mirror-of-your-future-buenos-aires-latin-america/
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The biggest racial mistake that Spain had during the imperial era is that its elites wanted to be more Catholic than the Pope, when Columbus discovered America, Queen Isabella ordered the conquerors to marry Indian women, on the other hand until the nineteenth century the common people were not allowed to emigrate to America, only rulers and conquerors, only rulers and conquerors, at least the slave emigration of blacks, mestizos and Indians to Spain was residual, and the laws of blood and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims allowed to reduce the Semitic and North African genes.
If Spain had done the same as England did with its colonies or what it did in Andalusia under the reign of Charles III: repopulate the depopulated lands with European settlers, South America would now be much richer and prosperous.
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After having investigated in more depth I have to revise my previous comment:
There was a process of miscegenation through storage and polygamous unions of concubinage in the Spanish territories that occurred during the first half of the 16th century due to the scarcity of white Spanish women, but mixed marriages recognized as legitimate were always very rare.
In the Spanish Empire, despite what many mesticist authors say, there was a system of castes and racial segregation, where unions of people of the same race were even encouraged, as in the case of blacks, and although Indians were granted lands maintaining their own laws, they were always subject to the Spanish crown and Spaniards, mulattos or blacks could not access these lands to avoid racial mixing, Indians could not use firearms and were prohibited, like mestizos, mulattoes and blacks, from accessing them. to military, ecclesiastical positions and public positions such as notaries, notaries, aldermen or corregidors of Indians (blacks were even prohibited from going out on the streets at night to prevent them from continuing to cause damage), as well as receiving higher public education, and in said schools as well. There was racial segregation, as more Spanish women arrived in America, mixed marriages were considerably reduced in the same way that it was considered dishonorable to marry someone of a darker race, that mestizo in turn would become of a lower caste, in Cuba in 1805 literally prohibited “Spaniard people of known nobility and cleanliness of blood” from marrying people of other races regardless of their social origin.
Miscegenation in Spain was legally permitted and was frowned upon. As more Spanish women arrived on the continent, marriage between white Spaniards increased. Shortly before the end of the Spanish Empire, the dominant population continued to be the native Indians dominated by a white Spaniard elite. Although in some areas of America it was already quite advanced, majority miscegenation began when the territories became independent under liberal Masonic governments.
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