Argentines are more whites in Latin America? you think?

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andangeles

No, it's Uruguay.

Edit: I dont know why I got thumb down, but you shoud obviously know that Brazil has a greater size, therefore a greater population. Since Brazil has a greater population there will be more whites in Brazil than in Uruguay, Uruguay has more whites than Brazil or Argentina, when we talk about the size of the population. Only 40% of Brazilians indentify as whites and 98% in Argentina so does Uruguay. Uruguay is a country known for their immigrants from Europe .

joshualuv93

yes I think so cause most of them have a italian and european background and many germans,italians etc from WW2 fled to Argentina,Uruguay,Brazil etc after the war was over and the hunt for nazis began.

Renato

Actually, Brazil is the country with the biggest number of Whites in South America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people
http://www.experiencefestival.com/brazil_-_ethnicity_and_race

Off course because of the very bright people in this world, they'll assume everyone from Brazil is darkskinned.

Also, Brazil is the country with the biggest number of Italian Immigrants, not Argentina. SÃ£o Paulo city alone, has more Italian decendents than Rome itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Brazilian

Pinolera

They are mostly descendants of Europeans.

Tom M

Generally speaking, yeah. It's not even so much that it's more of European descent, than other Latin American and South American countries, but rather that much of their European ancestry comes from more recent immigration (late 1800's/early 1900's). There's also a larger diversity among European ethnicities there, than in other parts of Latin America. For example, Italian ancestry is common there. Still though, Spanish ancestry is most common.The reason why there is a very low black population there is because they was little to no slavery in Argentina. Fewer Europeans had settled this area during the slave trade, and it wasn't as agriculturally flourishing as more northern places, like in Brazil and Venezuela, largely because of the climate, so few slaves were brought there.There also was a smaller indigenous population there than on the western part of the South American continent, where the Incan Empire one was. Most of the indigenous that were in Argentina, and the southern part of the continent, were either killed or diluted through mixing with white's.Cities in Latin America, especially South America, tend to be disproportionally white in comparison to the rest of their countries, because they hold higher levels of wealth and education, largely because their descendants did. Things are slowly changing though. The continent is becoming more socialized, especially in Venezuela and Argentina. Eventually, it'll make a larger impact in Peru, Chile and a number of other countries as well. Hopefully, they'll nationalize college education, that way, everyone has an equal chance for success.

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