In Mexico and especially throughoug Central into Northern South America....?

Question

there are alot of caucasian/indian mixed people. why isn't this the case for the United States?

My impression of the fact is that the spanish came from europe and settled throughout and mated with the indians and thats why many people from mexico and to south america are half white and half indian (or half white/half black)

and that the English came to settle in the 13 states and eventually the rest of the west....but yet in the U.S., i dont see the mixed race...why is this? im very curious.

Did the spanish and the indian natives embrace each other and the English didnt?

thank you for your response.

well yeah, i dont mean english as the dominant race in america, i mean caucasians, or white europeans if you prefer. the majority of the people living in america are white blooded caucasians.

the thing is that the majority of the mexicans and throughout central america, the people are mixed, and thats the majority race, but not here. 74% of the people in America are caucasion, while for example, in Mexico, 9 out of every 10 people are either white/indian mixed or white/black or indian/black.

this is not the case in America!! why?!

Answer 1

In Latin America (not only the Spanish, also the Portuguese in Brazil), among the white settlers, there was a majority of men over women. Instead of dying alone, they decided to ignore any racism, if they had any, and marry with indian or black women. So interracial marriages were not a taboo in Latin America, at least between white man and non-white woman.

And, as someone said above, Southern Europeans tends to be less racist than Northern Europeans, even today. The first thing Hernán Cortez did when he arrived in Mexico was to find an indian girlfriend. The most famous Portuguese poet, Luis Camões, was married with an Asian girl (from Phillipines or China, not sure). Imagine that in the XVIth century in England!

Why were Southern Europeans less racist than Northern Europeans?

Maybe because of their geographical position, Southern Europeans always had more contact with people of other races and cultures than Northern Europeans.

Maybe because of the religion, protestants tends to see themselfes as the "chosen people" while catholics have a more universal approach.

Southern Europeans were very racist at that time, but less than Northern Europeans.

Answer 2

Everybody is missing the elephant. The reason the Indian population is so small to begin with -- European diseases came in and wiped out 90 percent of the population of the Americas between 1500 and 1600.
The reason the English, French and Spanish were able to take over the Americas was because there were very few people left alive to stop them.

As to the intermarriage thing, I think a big part of it is cultural. Southern Europeans are more open to marrying people of other cultures than Northern Europeans -- at least as a general rule. The English who came to the United States were uptight (to say the least) and would have been horrified by the idea of marrying "savages". That doesn't mean there were no marriages, just far fewer than in Latin America.

Incidentally, Savage comes from Latin. It means "people who dwell in the forest."

Answer 3

It is really simple:

The native peoples in south Mexico and the rest of Central and South America were subjugated, in most instances
and assimilated. Exceptions were such as in the Amazon, parts of Mexico both southern and along the US border states.

Since Colonial times, native peoples in America were driven further west or devastated by disease and war. However some tribes were assimilated in such as New England and to a degree in the west. The "hostile' nations (tribes) were
fought in the so called "Indian Wars" then isolated on reservations. The peoples were also subject to laws that
made any access to community difficult.

The Spanish advances, settlement of the American Southwest was a gradual process, and most all the native peoples were very warlike: Pueblos, and such. Much of Mexico's Yucatan is native peoples. In southern Mexico native peoples are still fighting Mexico's central government.

Many folks in the American west are a racial 'mix" and well you see this in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and such. In the American west, society wanted the "Indians", isolated or dead. Somehow they have survived, cultures intact but very damaged.

Look at a US map and see how isolated the reservations are. They were put there for that reason. The issues remain.
Povery and isolation.

Answer 4

I am guessing you just haven't looked very far. There are many mixed race people in the US and the fact that so many whites married Indians has had a serious impact on the survival of the Indian race. The Indian nations have dwindled greatly because of inter marriage of whites, hispanics and native Americans. You are looking for something you call half black/half white and I am puzzled by that. In the US, native Americans moved further West or assimilated in the east and eventually there was great assimilation in the West and Southwest. I think in South America if a European married a native they produced a mixed race child, then it was more likely that this child married a native as well taking the bloodline more toward native. That would have been more likely because Spanish and English people are not numerically greater there. In the US because of the size of the nation and that the nation grew by millions, inter race marriage do not produce a person whom you can identify as one race or another, hence the term mixed. A first generation mixed child may show one race of the other, second and third generation shows less of one race and much of both or many other ethnic groups. In the US whites are not all English, predominately. Whites are many ethnic groups such as Russian, Scandanavian, French, UK, Polynesian, Italian, Slavic, Spanish, and on and on. So not only do races mix but ethnic groups are mixing at the same time. Italians can be dark, Arabs can be dark. In the US people marry across all ethnic and racial lines and create progeny that are difficult to identify by race. Racists try to do that all the time but its virtually impossible with certainty. Racists talk about race all the time and such things as whether or not this person is white or I am black is important to racists. For must people, they fall in love and marry and have children. I hope you are not racist but you seem intrigued by purity of bloodlines. You won't have much luck with the in the US. We are called the melting pot, but to racists we are a nation of mutts. And we like that.