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The Americas
Anguilla
Language: English
Antigua and Barbuda
Language: English and English-based patois
Argentina
People: 85% European descent, 15% mestizo, Indian and other minorities
Language: American Spanish, plus 17 indigenous languages
Aruba
Language: Dutch, Papiamento, plus English and Spanish
Bahamas
People: African descent (85%), European descent (12%), Asian & Hispanic (3%)
Language: English
Barbados
People: African (90%), English, Scottish & East Indians
Language: English
Belize
People: 44% mestizo, 30% Creole, 11% Maya, 7% Garifuna
Language: English, English Creole, Spanish, Maya and Garífuna
Bermuda
People: 61% African descent, 38% Caucasian descent, a small minority of American Indian descent
Language: English
Bolivia
People: 30% Quechua Indian, 25% mestizo, 30% Aymará Indian, approx 15% European (principally Spanish)
Language: Spanish but most Indians speak either Quechua or Aymará; composite dialects of Spanish-Aymará and Spanish-Quechua are also widely spoken
Brazil
People: 55% European descent, 38% mulatto, 6% African descent (according to the 1980 census). In reality, these figures are skewed by whiteness being equated with social stature in Brazil.
Language: Portuguese
British Virgin Islands
People: African descent (90%), North American, Asian
Language: English
Canada
People: British descent (28%), French descent (23%), Italian descent (3%), aboriginal peoples (2%), plus significant minorities of German, Ukrainian, Dutch, Greek, Polish and Chinese descent
Languages: English, French and 53 native languages
Cayman Islands
People: Mixed African and European descent
Language: English
Chile
People: 95% European descent and mestizo, 5% Indian
Language: Spanish and a handful of native languages, including Aymara, Mapuche and Rapa Nui
Colombia
People: 58% Mestizo (of European-Indian descent), 20% European descent, 14% mulatto (African-European descent), 4% African descent, 3% African-Indian descent, 1% indigenous
Language: Castilian Spanish, plus over 200 indigenous languages
Costa Rica
People: 96% Spanish descent, 2% African descent, 1% indigenous Indians, 1% Chinese
Language: Spanish, Creole English and Indian dialects
Cuba
People: 60% Spanish descent, 22% mulatto, 11% African descent, 1% Chinese
Language: Spanish
Dominica
People: African descent (90%), native Carib (4%)
Language: English, French-based patois
Dominican Republic
People: 73% mulatto, 16% European descent, 11% African descent
Ecuador
People: 40% mestizo, 40% Indian, 15% Spanish descent, 5% African descent
Language: Spanish, Quechua, Quichua, other indigenous languages
El Salvador
People: 94% mestizo (Spanish-Indian), 5% Indian, 1% European descent
Language: Spanish, some Nahua
Falkland Islands
People: British
Language: English
French Guiana
People: 70% Creole (African/Afro-European descent), 10% European, 8% Asian, 8% Brazilian, 4% Amerindian
Language: French, French Guianese creole, Amerindian languages
Greenland
Langauge: Greenlandic Inuktitut, Danish
Grenada
People: African descent (82%), mixed descent (13%), European and East Indian (5%)
Language: English, French-African patois
Guadeloupe
People: Mixed African, European and East Indian descent (75%), French
Language: French, some Creole patois
Guatemala
People: 56% mestizo/ladino descent, 44% Mayan descent
Language: Spanish, Garífuna and 21 Mayan languages
Guyana
People: 51% East Indian, 43% Afro-Guyanese, 4% Amerindian, 2% European & Chinese
Language: English (though most Guyanese speak a creole), also Hindi and Urdu
Haiti
People: 95% African descent, 5% mulatto and European descent
Honduras
People: 90% mestizo, 7% Indian
Language: Spanish, Creole English and Indian dialects
Jamaica
People: 76% African descent, 15% Afro-European descent, 4% European, 3% East Indian & Middle Eastern, 1% Afro-Chinese & Chinese
Language: English and patois
Martinique
People: African descent (90%) French (5%), plus Indian, Syrian and Lebanese
Language: French, French Creole patois, some English
Mexico
People: Approximately 60% mestizo (mixed European and Amerindian descent) and 30% Amerindian (indígena - including Nahua, Maya, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Totonacs, and Tarascos or Purépecha)
Language: Spanish and 59 indigenous languages
Montserrat
Language: English
Netherlands Antilles
Language: Dutch
Nicaragua
People: 69% mestizo, 17% European descent, 9% African descent, 5% indigenous peoples
Language: Spanish, English Creole, Miskito
Panama
People: 65% mestizo, 14% African descent, 10% Spanish descent, 10% Indian
Language: Spanish, English and Indian languages
Paraguay
People: 95% Mestizo
Language: Officially Spanish, but Guaraní is widely spoken
Peru
People: 54% Indian, 32% Mestizo (mixed European and Indian descent), 12% Spanish descent, 2% Black, Asian minority
Language: Spanish, Quechua, Aymara
Puerto Rico
Language: Spanish, English
St. Kitts-Nevis
People: African (90%), European
Language: English
St. Lucia
People: African (90%), mixed descent (6%), European and East Indian (4%)
Language: English & French-based patois
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Language: French
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
People: African (75%), Black Carib (1%) and Scottish
Language: English, French patois
Suriname
People: 35% East Indian, 32% Afro-Surinamese, 15% Indonesian, 10% Maroons (descendants of ex-slaves who inhabit the upland forests)
Language: Dutch, and also English, Sranan (an English-based Creole), Hindi, Javanese and Chinese
Trinidad and Tobago
People: African (39%), East Indian (61%), with significant European, Chinese, Syrian, Lebanese and Carib minorities
Language: English, Hindi, Creole, Spanish and Chinese
Turks and Caicos Islands
People: Mainly African descent, plus Haitians and Dominican immigrants, and North American and European expats
Language: English
U.S. Virgin Islands
People: African descent (75%), US mainland expats (13%), Puerto Rican (5%), Danish, French
Language: English, plus some Creole, Spanish and French
Uruguay
People: 88% European descent, 8% Mestizo, 4% Black
Language: Spanish
USA
People: Caucasian (71%), African American (12%), Latino (12%), Asian (4%), Native American (0.9%)
Languages: English, plus many secondary languages, chiefly Spanish
Venezuela
People: 67% mestizo, 21% European descent, 10% African descent, 2% indigenous. There are approximately 200,000 Amerindians, remnants of a number of diverse semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer societies.
Language: Spanish is the official language, but more than 30 Amerindian languages still survive, predominantly belonging to the Arawak, Cariban and Chibcha ethnolinguistic categories.
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