White Argentine

infobox ethnic group
group = White Argentine
"Argentino blanco"


caption = Notable White Argentines: Eva Perón·Néstor Kirchner·Yésica Toscanini David Nalbandian·Clarisa Fernández·Coti Sorokin Gabriel Batistuta·Carlos Menem·Manu Ginóbili
poptime = White Argentine
39,092,869
(95% of total Argentina's population)
popplace = Found throughout Argentina
langs = Predominantly Spanish
rels = Predominantly
Roman Catholic
with Jewish·Protestant·Orthodox·
Atheist and Agnostic minorities
related = White Brazilian·White Cuban·White Latin American·White Americans·White Hispanic·White Mexican
Spaniards· Italians·Germans·French·Portuguese·Poles·Croats·Europeans·Ashkenazi Jews

White Argentines make up 86.4% [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Argentina.html Argentina ] ] to 97% [ [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/ar.html CIA - The World Factbook - Argentina ] ] of Argentina's population. Whites are found in all areas of the country. White Argentines mainly are descendants of immigrants who came mainly from Spain and Italy in the late 19th century.

History

Unlike many regions in the Americas, Argentine ethnography is characterized for having a major percentage of European descendents. Estimations of which vary from 85% to 97% [ [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/ar.html CIA - The World Factbook - Argentina] [ [http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/01/16/sociedad/s-03415.htm El 56% de los argentinos tiene antepasados indígenas ] ] The last national census indicated a similar figure of 95% White or mostly White, which is much closer to the upper limit for different estimations.

The most common ethnic groups are Italian and Spaniard. There are also significant German, Polish, French, and Slavic populations.

After the regimented Spanish colonists, waves of European settlers came to Argentina from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Major contributors included Italy (initially from Piedmont, Veneto and Lombardy, later from Campania, Calabria, and Sicily), [ [http://www.feditalia.org.ar/arg/federaciones/feditalia_org_fed_regionales.html Federaciones Regionales] www.feditalia.org.ar] , and Spain (most are Galicians and Basques, but there are Asturians, Cantabrians, Catalans, and Andalusian). Smaller but significant numbers of immigrants include Germans, which most are Volga Germans of Russia, but many came from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria; French which mainly came from the Occitania region of France; Slavic groups which most are Croats and Poles, but there are Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians, Serbs, and Montenegrins; British mainly from England and Wales; Irish who left from the Potato famine or British rule; Scandinavians from Sweden, Denmark,Finland, and Norway; Armenians mainly from the Ottoman Empire and Arabs mainly from the Ottoman Empire provinces of what is now the countries of Lebanon and Syria. Smaller waves of settlers from Australia, South Africa, and the United States are recorded in Argentine immigration recordsFact|date=November 2007.

The majority of Argentina's Jewish community derives from immigrants of north and eastern European origin (Ashkenazi Jews), and about 15–20% from Sephardic groups from Syria. Argentina is home to the fifth largest Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. (See also History of the Jews in Argentina) .

Ancestry

Ancestry of White Argentines come mostly from two European sources:

* Italians (70% of Argentine people)
* Spaniards

Other Europeans that have contributed significantly include, but are not limited to:

* Germans
* French
* Portuguese
* Croats
* Poles
* Ukrainians
* Belarusians
* Russians
* Irish
* English
* Scots
* Welsh
* Swedes
* Dutch
* Greeks
* Ashkenazi Jews from Western and Eastern Europe

Argentina also took people of the Middle East of all backgrounds (most are Christian), and they are considered white. Contributions come from:

* Armenians
* Lebanese
* Palestinians
* Syrians
* Turks

ee also

*White people
*Demographics of Argentina
*Immigration in Argentina
*White Brazilian
*White Cuban
*White Latin American
*White Mexican

References