Posted By admin on December 20, 2010

Columbian Peru

Is being columbian or mexican or any other country in south america...?

is being e.g. columbian a nationality or an ethnic background? I would think thats its a nationality because people who live in latin american countries (e.g. mexico,argentina,brazil,bolivia,peru) have different races living in these countries. So, there is not one specific race, latin america is a continent of the world so to speak, it consists of every ethnic background of the world basically in just one continent, and that there is no such thing as a latino race. Am i correct?

In fact, the world "latino", or more appropriately " hispanic", doesn't express anymore the ethnicity, even though almost everyone in those countries have some spanish heritage.
If you go to Argentina,you'll notice that everyone is White European (usually from spanish ascendance, or sometimes italian,french,jewish,lebanese;armenian,etc).
If you go to Bolivia, you'll see that most of people are descendants of Native Indians, and there hadn't been a lot of interracial marriage.
If you go to Colombia, Venezuela or Cuba, you'll notice that 50 % of the population is mixed Spanish/Native, Spanish/African, Native/African or sometimes even the three at once. And there are also large communities of "unmixed" people, Black or White,etc...
There is no Latino race : many Black Cubans or Black Colombians consider themselves as Latinos, and so do the Mexicans or the Salvadorians who don't even have a drop of spanish blood.
The cultural appartenance feeling has built itself from the language.

Category: Antiques
Tags: civilization, history, inca, peru, pre-columbian