Are mexicans today mixtures of the indians that once lived there and spanish that came from spain.?

Answer 1

60% are racially mixed of the native Indian tribes and the Spanish and there are still some the native Indians that kept their native cultures and did not assimilate into the Spanish-linguistic culture. About 10% of Mexicans are of European origin, and there are some Texan-Mexicans, and American-Mexicans in Mexico also.

Answer 2

The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century soon led to widespread intermarriage and racial mixing between Spaniards and Native Americans. As late as the early 19th century, Native Americans accounted for nearly two-thirds of the population in the region. During that century, however, the racial composition of the country began to change from one that featured distinct European (Spanish) and indigenous populations, to one made up largely of mestizos-people of mixed Spanish and Native American descent. By the end of the 19th century, mestizos, who were discriminated against during three centuries of Spanish colonization, had become the largest population group in Mexico. Mestizos now account for about 60 percent of Mexicans.

Indigenous peoples make up approximately 30 percent of the population, and people of European ancestry, primarily Spanish, make up about nine percent of the population. About two percent of all Mexicans are immigrants from abroad. Africans contributed to the original racial mixture when approximately 120,000 slaves were brought to the region between 1519 and 1650. By the end of the colonial period, as many as 200,000 Africans may have entered New Spain. Blacks intermarried with Native Americans and mestizos and live on both the west and east coasts. Their primary influence is centered around the Gulf Coast port of Veracruz. Native Americans are concentrated in the regions of Mexico where indigenous civilizations were located at the time of the conquest.

Answer 3

Some. There are three types in Mexico. Criollos are the pure Spanish or European stock. Mestizo which is mixed blood of Spanish and Pre-Hispanic and then the pure Pre-hispanic.

Answer 4

Mexicans are almost as mixed a group as Americans.

There were two major Native tribes and several minor ones that lived in Mexico when the Spanish arrived. Some areas the populations are almost very close to the natives.

The Spanish started with the Peons, then the Celts controlled the area for a very long time. The Romans came and they brought Germanic and Steppe tribes along with Celts. Then came the Muslims with their Moorish soliders. (The Moors apparently origionated somewhere around Eithiopia. After centuries of service in Egypt they had become very much like Libyia's Ghadafi in appearence by the time the Muslims invaded Spain. A mixture of Arab, Black and European blood. This came from serving Egyptions, Carthagens, Romans, Vandals, short periods of self rule then serving the Arab armies). The French a mixture of Celt and German were the next to flood Spain. As such in some areas people are fair skinned and possibly more Celtic than the Irish. The Moors lived on in Spain long after the Arabs were driven out. A disproportionate number of the Spanish in the new world were Moors or had Moorish heritage.

So the Spanish took over and created distinct castes. Those of European birth and or pure European bloodlines were generally the wealthy upper caste. A very cruel and corrupt group eventually came from them. In parts of Mexico anybody who had even a slight resemblence to European was killed or driven out during revolts. This left Mexicans as primarily of Indian stock with large numbers of lower caste Spanish, often those with more Arab or Moorish blood remaining.

Then came the Apache, Comanche and other American tribes driven West and South by the US Army and invasions of settlers. Some like the Apache already existed in Mexico.

After the Spanish American war some American's remained. Some were deserters like the St Patty brigade. Some came to Mexico strait from Europe. Large numbers of Germans settled in Mexico and South America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American bandits, political refugees, escaped slaves, and all sorts of Americans filtered into Mexico. Thousands of Americans supported one of Mexico's many revolutions. Thousands fought in the war. Some stayed in Mexico. Some religious groups such as the Mormans have enclaves in Mexico as well.

Unlike the US, many areas are very ethnically pure compared to America's melting pot. Others like Northern Mexico are ethnically very mixed. Mexico does differ sharply from most Latin American nations in ethnic background. The average Mexican is mostly Native stock. In Pananama for example there were huge numbers of slaves imported. So Pannamanians tend to be more a mix of Spanish and Black. In Argentinia the mix is mostly European. Some places like Brazil, Puerto Rico and Cuba have all the variations that have come to be known as Hispanic. So Mexico is not representive of Latin ethnicity. Depends on what Natives were there, if the tribes survived the arrival of the Spanish or not. How many and who came to those nations since. There are a couple of Latin American countries with large Asian populations for example. Germans emigrated heavily up until the late 40s to some parts of South America. Chile especially, but Mexico, Brazil and Argentinia as well.

So it really depends on the individual Mexican as to what their heritage is. You could say that Americans are descended from Europeans but it's not really accurate. People of full or partial European descent are barely a majority any more in the US. In Mexico you have people purely of European descent, people purely of African descent, people purely of Native descent and everything in between.

Answer 5

I'm sure, actually positive that there are people who are both Mexican and Spanish (mestizo,I believe). I'm sure that there also people of Native American and Mexican descent aswell. I mean California used to belong to Mexico so I'm sure there are people of these mixes.

Answer 6

some are just one or the other, and some are a mix of the two.