Talk:Ethnic groups in Central America

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What is going with the constant edits to Honduras' African population? It keeps changing everyday? I thought that population change is gradual... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chriscarlos (talk • contribs) 09:37, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Asian Population

Anyone have any sites with stats. on the Asian pop. in Central America? Its mostly Chinese and japanese from what i know.
- LaNicoya 15:57, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

There are some chinese in el salvador I know that. Manic Hispanic 23:02, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

There are Chinese everywhere, noticeable presence in Tegucigalpa. But overall in Honduras the largest group of Asians are Arabs and methinks that will be the same in El Salvador etc, SqueakBox 23:06, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the black population of El Salvador

El Salvador has no Africans. I challenge this sentence in the article "Salvadorans with African heritage are present, most notably in San Salvador, the capital". The only time you will see a black is when there a tourist, and maybe there are a few mestizos with distant African ancestors, but the genetic influence is negligible and not worthy of a mention. Manic Hispanic 23:05, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I have read that the genetic influence is massive but as a rule the blacks in Latin America are on or near the Caribbean coast, SqueakBox 23:42, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Really? I'd like to see your sources.

Ahh the problem is I cant remember where I read it. i'll do a google search, SqueakBox 18:11, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Cant find it and I dont disagree with what you are saying anyway. In Honduras all the blacks atre in the north, down south in Tegucigalpa etc a black face is a rarity though I imagine much more so in El Salvador because of it not having a Caribbean coast. if I find what I read I'll post it here but even so nobopdy is saying blacks are an ethnic group in El Salvador, SqueakBox 21:17, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

There is a book's chapter about them, I found the title but alas not the book: Francisco Lizcano, “Presencia y ausencia de la población negra en El Salvador”, in Presencia Africana en Centroamérica, Luz Maria Martínez Montiel (ed.), pp 103-112 (México, DF.: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONCULTURA), 1993). And in the Spanish wikipedia's article es:El Salvador#Demografía they say (without mentioning any source) "El Salvador es el único país de américa central que no tiene ninguna población africana nativa debido a la inaccesibilidad del comercio de el Océano Atlántico. Además el general Maximiliano Hernández Martínez instituyó leyes de razas en la década de 1930 que prohibieron la entrada de poblaciones negras al país.". --Pylambert (talk) 03:38, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the White population of Costa Rica

It is absolutely absurd to say that 80% of Costa Ricans are white, I have been to Costa Rica, this is very false. I quote the Wikipedia article "White Latin America":

"Chile, Costa Rica, and Guatemala have censuses which identify both whites and mestizos (people of mixed white and Native American ancestry) in one category, so the exact percentage of whites in those countries is undetermined or unknown."

Thus, this means that 80% of Costa Ricans are either Mestizo OR White, not simply white. In conclusion I think the article should be changed to N/A on Costa Rica's white population, as to not be misleading. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cjarguello (talk • contribs) 15:04, 22 April 2008 (UTC)