Does anybody know what makes up Peruvians, besides spanish and incan?
2006-12-29 13:24:04 · 3 answers · asked by Blah-Blah590 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Peru is one of only three Latin American countries which have their largest population segment consisting of indigenous Amerindians, with around 45% of all Peruvians classified as such. At the national level, mestizos constitute the second largest segment of the population, at around 37% of the total population. The term traditionally denotes people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, and most Peruvian mestizos are of this combination, but other lineages (most notably African) are also present, in varying degrees, in some segments of the mestizo population. Around 15% of the population is classified as "White", and they are for the most part criollos, the relatively unmixed descendants of the colonial Spanish colonizers. Descendants of Italian and other small group of German, Yugoslavs and other Europeans represent a relatively smaller proportion of the overall White population. The remaining 3% of the population is of black African ancestry.
2006-12-29 13:58:28 · answer #1 · answered by Nuttie Nettie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe african. there was a large slave trade in southern and central americans that resulted in much of the population to be somehow mixed with it, although its been highly ignored. there are also people there of french, german, and a large population of asian descent (japanese and chinese).
2006-12-29 21:41:38 · answer #2 · answered by b2k4ever08 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A little llama
2006-12-29 21:27:29 · answer #3 · answered by royce r 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋