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*Ethnic groups
95.4% White and Mestizo
4% Mapuche
0.6% Other indigenous groups
The bulk of the Chilean population is largely of an homogeneous mestizo stock,[41] the product of miscegenation between colonial Spanish immigrants and Amerindian females[42] (including the Atacameños, Diaguitas, Picunches, Araucanians or Mapuches, Huilliches, Pehuenches, and Cuncos[43]). Chile's racial structure can be classified as 30% white, 5% Native American and 65% predominantly white mestizos.[41] Whites are mostly Spanish in origin (mainly Castilians, Andalusians and Basques), and to a much lesser degree from Chile's various waves of immigrants (Italians, Germans, Jews, Yugoslavians, Arabs, etc.). The number of foreigners in the country was always small, totalling 600 in the whole colonial period. The 1960 census reported 105,000 foreigners (55% Spanish, German, Italians or Argentines, in that order). Small as they were, they rapidly mixed in with the local population. The black population was negligible, reaching a high of 25,000 during the colonial period; their racial contribution is less than 1%. The current Native American population is relatively small (see below) according to the censuses; their numbers are boosted when taking into consideration those that are similar physically and those associated to them either linguistically or socially |
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