Races of Mexico and the Mexican Genome Project

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Posted on: July 16th, 2007
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“So what does a Mexican look like?

Racially speaking, there is great variation among Mexicans.

The Mexican racial breakdown is officially presented as 9 percent white, 60 percent mestizo Indigenous-European hybrid, 30 percent Indigenous, and 1 percent other.

The mestizaje mixture of Indians and Spaniards is the principal fact of Mexican racial history. And yet, the details are even more complicated.”

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