[OC] Three Latin American countries are among the 5 most unequal on Earth. More so than so-called Gulf states and even Russia with its oligarchs.EpsomHorse t1_j75stuf wrote
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> ... any country colonized by Spain will look like that.
You need to do some backpacking!
Argentinians are indeed mostly European, because (1) there was almost no slavery there, (2) the country carried out a genocide against its indigenous population between about 1870 and 1890, and (3) it received massive numbers of European immigrants between about 1880 and 1930.
The average Chilean, on the other hand, has about a 44% indigenous admixture and a 55% European one, with 1%-2% African DNA.
Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and much of Central America is even more indogenous than Chile.
The Dominican Republic's population is almost entirely of African descent.
And so on.
Latin America is tremendously heterogenous.
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