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The Anthropological theory of Racial Assimilation (previously called "Racial Progression" is the process of artificial selection which in the first generation, the person is born to two parents of two different races or two parents who equally half of two races, then by the second generation...
The Californios are the descendants of Spanish & Mexican colonists who settled in present-day California during the Spanish & Mexican eras, prior to to the outbreak of the Mexican-American War.
Today, Historians & Genealogists have estimated that there are 300,000 to 500,000 descendants of...
The Gauchos are an ethnoregional group in the Southern Cone (mainly in Argentina & Uruguay), but also in the southern part of Bolivia, the south of the Chilean Patagonia, & Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
They are predominantly a mixture of Spanish (including Basque) & Indigenous (including...
The Paisas are an ethnoregional group in Colombia, famous Paisas (both real & fictional) include Pablo Escobar (the now-deceased Cartel boss of the Medellin Cartel), Juan Valdez (the infamous character of the Colombian coffee industry, & Alvaro Uribe (former Colombian president.
Colombian...
According to 23andMe & AncestryDNA (🧬) results on Reddit, as well as genetic studies, Costa Ricans (🇨🇷) (also known as "Ticos" are on average, mostly Spanish (🇪🇸), with 1/3 or 1/4 Indigenous American (🪶) admixture, with smaller amounts of Sephardic Jewish (✡️) (around 1/32) & Sub-Saharan African...
The State of California defines six Ethno-Racial categories, & "Hispanic" is not considered a race on federal level, its considered an "ethnicity", however state agencies & local agencies classify "Hispanic" as a race, mainly to avoid any confusion, due to lack of understanding the diversity of...
According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico recognizes two ethno-racial categories.
Indigenas (Mexicans who are over 80% Amerindian, & culturally Indigenous)
Afromexicanos (Mexicans with visible African features, & usually at least genetically 10% Sub-Saharan...