How did Spanish American countries go from about 70% Indian, 15% European, 15% mixed at the time of independence, to basically 90% mixed today?What changes did they go through? How did the mixed population come to be? What happened to the Indians? What happened to the white population?Perhaps a more important question: what does it mean to be mixed? Are they a genuinely new people born from the mixture of Africans, Europeans and Indians? Or are they in origin the European settlers, whose genepool has been altered over generations of race-mixing, basically slowly rendering the white population mixed?
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>>18176133Read or ask your preferred AI to resume "La raza cósmica" from José Vasconcelos. It's explained there.
>>18176133Being Mixed or Mestizo in Latam is a matter of two aspects to it, the racial and the culturalAs you said, the racial aspect comes from the racemixing of the indigenous population with the European settlers and African slaves over time, which was aided by the waves of migrations both from Europe and Asia to Latam, and also from the rural zones to the cities.However, the second aspect is the cultural, as being Mestizo is not just describing someone being of mixed blood, but also being a member of the newly independent national identities of Mexico, Chile and so forth, without any ties to either Europe or the old native people's. You might be majority native blooded, but if you have zero knowledge about native languages or customs, speak spanish exclusively, and have a completely westernized lifestyle, then for all purposes you became a mestizo in practice.
>>18176133Most of the newly independent nations encouraged racemixing after independence in order to create a monoculture, before independence most of these nations had Spanish cities with a totally native hinterland which lacked much commonality with the cities and thus it was difficult to get them to see themselves as forming a single national identity. In many cases the natives did not even speak Spanish and most of them followed their own chiefs and traditional rulers alongside the catholic priests, in fact in Mexico they had "republics of Indios" where these native governments were formalised and Spaniards were banned from marrying the women of these republics. So upon independence you had a population speaking dozens of different languages having different cultures all while you are trying to create a united national identity. The solution many states had to this was to encourage intergration of the seperate populations through intermarriage, for instance in Paraguay the government actually banned Spaniards marrying within their own race, this had the effect of weakening both populations differences as marriage is most effective way to assimilate, gradually the Spanish cultures gained much more dominance than under the actual Spanish empire since they were the wealthier group in these new couplings. Another factor is the new migration coming from Europe encouraged by these new regimes which further diminished the native population in terms of percentage of the population. So ironicially the independence movement actually weakened the natives as a distinct group by assimililating them to the Spanish population and the European percentage of the blood is actually much higher there today than on the eve of independence.
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>>18177262This is all true, and that's the most ironic part of the Hispanidad meme: without the "evil" and "masonic" Latin American independence movements, Spanish would never have become the world's second most spoken language.
