Is most of latin america a mixed race?
It depends. Most Latin Caribbean nations tend to have many white, black and Amerindian mixtures. Most continental Latin American nations tend to be a mixture of white and Amerindian. (for the exception of Brazil and Colombia) Argentina and Uruguay are almost completely full white.
Why do black americans deny they are mixed race?
Well according to a DNA test I only have a small percentage of non-black ancestry no white ancestry actually. I don't claim to be "100%" but I am black and that's all I consider myself. You're incorrect West Africans can have different hues. Yes the average West African is dark brown but their are medium brown and lighter brown hues as well. I've actually traveled there and they didn't even know I was "black American" until I started talking. When black Americans say they are "100%" black they are talking about their direct lineage (parents, grandparents, great grandparents). Most black Americans are not recently mixed at all. Any admixture usually dates back to slavery which in my opinion is insignificant. In most cases it doesn't effect our phenotypes. Edit: Well why didn't that happen to me? That video isn't going to change my personal experience so don't waste your time. I'm not very dark actually but it depends on your definition of dark skin. There were West Africans with lighter complexion than me. Around this hue: http://manolobrides.com/images/2007/08/bride.jpg A few were very light like this (he's not albino): http://www.sudanforum.net/customavatars/avatar18488_14.gif Edit: Rihanna isn't even American born she's from Barbados, she IS recently mixed her father was biracial the average black American does not have a full white grandparent. Most black American do not have light eyes. You're talking about exceptions. I've never seen a black American with very thin lips and a very narrow pointy nose so no most do not have "Caucasian features" either. lol @ you using celebrities as a representatives of black Americans. Once again Ice - T IS recently mixed and the average black person even if they are light skinned doesn't look like him. I'm nowhere near being "mulatto" you're out of your mind LOL.
Are most Mexicans mixed race?
Yes.Most Mexicans are mestizo — European and Native American. And there is a smaller degree of African admixture found within this population as well.VERY few Mexicans are of a singular or quote-unquote “pure” racial background. Even those that claim to be “White” will often have mestizo or castizo heritage (distantly mixed with indigenous ancestry).
Are most Japanese Americans mixed race?
I’d imagine yes, at this point. I’m one of the few outliers I know who is only Japanese-American and also married to someone who is Japanese-American (my running joke is that my ethnic background pie chart is a circle), and this absolutely was not an intentional choice as my previous fiancé was a white/Hispanic guy. Where I’m from, it’s definitely quite common for people older than me (I’m in my mid-30s) to be single-race, but even many of the people my age or younger I know who are fully Japanese-American are in relationships with people who aren’t, so as time goes by it’s less and less likely that people who identify as Japanese-American won’t be mixed in some way. I think that’s not unusual for any particular ethnic group in the USA, the more generations that go by.
Are African Americans a mixed race group?
I'm going through an identity crisis right now because I see myself as Black, but many people I meet seem to think I'm mixed or something. My dad is multiracial but doesn't that still make me just like many other African Americans?? So I'm just "Black" then, right?? Thats what I've always been but I still meet people who ask what I'm mixed with a lot, the last girl who asked me thought I was at least half Middle Eastern! That was weird, but others have thought I was half Filipino, half French, and other things. It gets annoying to me. ALL African Americans here are technically "mixed" to some degree? So I'm just African American and just Black. Right? If you compare African Americans to some others, like Haitians then as a group its two different looks!
Are African-Americans mixed race people?
Most of us have some degree of European in us. I think the average is 20-25% or something. Some of us are fully African too, especially in South Carolina and Coastal Georgia. Where my paternal grandfather was from (Charleston, SC) nearly all the black people there are very dark skinned with kinky hair and strong West African features. That's also where the escaped Gullah Geechee Afro Americans reside who usually are 95-100% African. So you'd say we are "admixed" but not necessarily "mixed race". That's a term to describe populations in Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico or Mexico.
In the next 100 years, will the 60% of Americans be mixed races?
I remember this episode of southpark. Where illegal immigrants from the future were arriving via a time machine, to take jobs from residents of southpark.They were all the same tint of light brown and spoke this language that was a mix of many languages.Remember thinking that it was possible but not in a hundred years.Hundred years is just roughly three generations. Maybe a thousand would produce the kind of humans that are visibly mixed race. But I do not think so.
So since most Americans are mixed. Does that mean we are technically one race with different variations?
Not exactly. There has been a continuos genetic intermingling with, Brits, Germans and others over the last quarter millenium plus.However, if you, say, isolate the USA or the North American continent for a couple centuries or more from those sort of exchanges, something like that is not impossible. It’s already happened on a much smaller scale among insular groups such as the amish, but generally lacks the whole “melting pot” aspect.This is not always the case, and a melting pot between the peoples of multiple continents has been going on in the “new world” for half a millenia, starting with Spanish colonization, between enslaved subsaharran Africans, European imperialists and indigenous peoples.Triracial IsolatesWarning, this map may offend politially correct sensibilities if I havent done so already:From:Who Are The Redbones - Redbone HeritageAs to what i referenced earlier, it has always been a big status symbol for ppl from the USA to land a English/British husband or wife, from the wife of John Quincy Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson (probably not the best example) to the titled british husband of Lady Churchill (Jennie Jerome) to any number of yanks during the Hollywood era of mid-atlantic accents and “british” affectations… the warbrides brought back by US servicemen, any of the hollywood entertainers (Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, Katy Perry and Russell Brand even if they divorced etc etc) and other politicians in the case of Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich just off the top of my head leaving out countless other examples… and many others i know vicariously.
Why are mixed race couples so rare in America?
That depends on what you mean by rare.First, understand that a full 68 to 70% of the US is still white. If everybody who could be was in a mixed race relationship, we’d have an absolute maximum of 32% mixed race relationship.Large parts of the US were settled by immigrants who stuck together with people of the same origin, resulting in racial neighborhoods which still persist today. That’s what brings about the Chinatown and Little Italy and little Germany neighborhoods you can find all across the country. While a lot of people move, not enough people move to overcome those demographics.The Census Bureau (https://www.census.gov/library/s...) says that the 10% of married couples in the US are interracial. If we assume that all couples follow that trend, we’re at 1/3rd of the max number we can get.Which means that for our demographics, how many interracial relationships can exist, they aren’t rare at all.