White Mexicans Spanish : Mexicanos blancos are individuals in Mexico who identify as white , often due to their physical appearance or their recognition of European ancestry. Estimates of Mexico's "White" population vary significantly due to the different methodologies used. The presence of Europeans in Mexico dates back to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire , and during the colonial period, most European immigration was Spanish.
However, in the 19th and 20th centuries, significant waves of European and European-derived populations from North and South America immigrated to Mexico. This intermixing between European immigrants and Indigenous peoples resulted in the emergence of the Mestizo group, which became the majority of Mexico's population by the time of the Mexican Revolution.
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In fact, Spaniards were often the most numerous ethnic group in colonial cities [32] [33] and there were menial workers and people in poverty who were of full Spanish origin. The Mexican experience mirrors much of that of the rest of Latin America , as attitudes towards race, including identification, were set by the conquistadors and Spanish who came soon after. Nonetheless, the system was not completely rigid and elements such as social class, social relations and who a person descended from did figure into it.
However, the notion of "Spanishness" would remain at the top and "Indianness" would be at the bottom, with those mixed being somewhere in the middle.
This idea remained officially in force through the rest of the colonial period. Mexico's European heritage is strongly associated with Spanish settlement during the colonial period, Mexico not having witnessed the same scale of mass recent-immigration as other New World countries such as the United States, Brazil, and Argentina.
