Latin America
Do you think it is true that there more native influence in latin america than in the US and Canada? In the US and Canada, many of the native peoples were wiped out and those that remain live on reservations or in insular communities. However, when I look at the average person from Mexico, Colombia, Guatamala and other latin american countries, I think that many of the people do not look like Europeans and therefore have native ancestry? I realize that there has been africans, asians, and europeans who have immigrated to latin america, but I still think my initial premise if true. What do you think?

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American natives are in all Americas from Alaska to Argentina, but USA, Canada and Argentina killed most of them, also you can find white people in Mexico they came from europe.

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I would be inclined to agree with you. The history of the subjugation of the native peoples in North America is a long and sad one. There are a few places where you may find truly native people, but generations of access to poor nutrition is causing all sorts of problems for them. For an example, read about the tremendously high rate of diabetes amongst Native Americans in the United States.

However, there is also a lot of racial mixing as well. I remember reading somewhere that many native peoples that were too dark in color we not allowed to breed, because certain powerful people wanted the native to be 'more white'. I am a white person in every meaning of the word, but people have told me I could perhaps pass for Puerto Rican if I spoke convincing Spanish.  :p

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