Mexicans of European descent
| Total population | |
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(Mexico 16,794,111 5.4% of United States population 32.2% of Hispanic and Latino Americans) |
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| Languages | |
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Spanish, Venetian (Chipilo Venetian), Plautdietsch |
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| Religion | |
| Christianity (predominantly Roman Catholic, with a minority of Protestants), Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other White Latin Americans · Other White Hispanic · Spaniards · Italians · French · Germans | |
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Estimates ranges from 11 to 56 million
9-47% of Mexican population
European Mexicans are Mexican citizens of complete or predominant European descent. While the Mexican government periodically conducts racial censuses for "Indigenous Mexicans" and "Afro-Mexicans" it hasn't conducted a census for European Mexicans for nearly a century. Estimates of this ethnic group as a segment of the country's population range from 9% and 20% according to The World Factbook and Encyclopædia Britannica to as high as 47% according to the ENADIS 2010 (National Survey About Discrimination), conducted by the CONAPRED (National Council to Prevent Discrimination) as a mean to address the problems of racism that Mexicans of mainly Indigenous or African ancestry suffer at hands of a society that favors light skinned, European looking Mexicans. Said survey is the only time the Mexican government has conducted a nationwide census that referenced the Eurodescendant population of Mexico.
Independent field studies have been made in attempt to quantify the number of European Mexicans living in modern Mexico, using blond hair as reference to classify a Mexican as white, the Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico calculated the percentage of said ethnic group at 23%. Another study made by the University College London in collaboration with Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History found that the frequencies of blond hair and light eyes in Mexicans are of 18.5% and 28.5% respectively.
Europeans began arriving in Mexico during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire; and while most European immigration was Spanish during the colonial period in the 19th and 20th centuries European and European-derived populations from North and South America did immigrate to the country. According to 20th and 21th century academics, large scale intermixing between the European immigrants and the native Indigenous peoples would produce a Mestizo group which would become the overwhelming majority of Mexico's population by the time of Independence. However according to church registers from the colonial times, the majority (73%) of Spanish men married with Spanish women. Said registers also put in question other narratives held by contemporary historians, such as European migrants who arrived to Mexico being almost exclusively men or that "pure Spanish" people were all part of a small powerful elite, as there were menial workers and people in poverty who were of complete Spanish origin.
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