Editing Ethnicity (section)

===North America===
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The indigenous people in North America are [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]]. During European colonization, Europeans arrived in North America. Most Native Americans died due to Spanish diseases and other European diseases such as smallpox during the [[European colonization of the Americas]]. The largest pan-ethnic group in the United States is [[White Americans]]. [[Hispanic and Latino Americans]] ([[Mexican Americans]] in particular) and [[Asian Americans]] have immigrated to the United States recently. In Mexico, most Mexicans are [[mestizo]], a mixture of [[Spaniards|Spanish]] and Native American ancestry. Some Hispanic and Latino Americans living in the United States are not mestizos.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Native_Peoples_of_North_America/|title=Native Peoples of North America}}</ref>

Enslaved Africans were brought to North America from the 16th to 19th centuries during the [[Atlantic slave trade]]. Many of them were sent to the [[Caribbean]]. Ethnic groups that live in the Caribbean are: indigenous peoples, Africans, Indians, White Europeans, Chinese and Portuguese. The first White Europeans to arrive in the [[Dominican Republic]] were the Spanish in 1492. The Caribbean was also colonized and discovered by the Portuguese, English, Dutch and French.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://caricom.org/our-community/who-we-are/our-people/ |title=Our People |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-date=29 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329182551/https://caricom.org/our-community/who-we-are/our-people/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

A sizeable number of people in the United States have mixed-race identities. In 2021, the number of Americans who identified as non-Hispanic and more than one race was 13.5 million. The number of Hispanic Americans who identified as multiracial was 20.3 million.<ref name="ny">{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/us/census-multiracial-identity.html|title = Behind the Surprising Jump in Multiracial Americans, Several Theories|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 13 August 2021|last1 = Tavernise|first1 = Sabrina|access-date = 26 March 2022|archive-date = 26 March 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220326091316/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/us/census-multiracial-identity.html|url-status = live}}</ref> Over the course of the 2010s decade, there was a 127% increase in non-Hispanic Americans who identified as multiracial.<ref name="ny"/>

The largest ethnic groups in the United States are [[Germans]], African Americans, [[Mexicans]], [[Irish Americans|Irish]], [[English Americans|English]],
[[American ancestry|Americans]], [[Italians]], [[Polish people|Poles]], [[French people|French]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]], Native Americans, [[Puerto Ricans]], [[Norwegians]], [[Dutch people]], [[Swedish people]], [[Chinese people]], [[West Indies|West Indians]], [[Russians]] and [[Filipinos]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldatlas.com:443/articles/largest-ethnic-groups-and-nationalities-in-the-united-states.html |title=Largest Ethnic Groups And Nationalities In The United States |date=18 July 2019 |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-date=9 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509184258/https://www.worldatlas.com/amp/articles/largest-ethnic-groups-and-nationalities-in-the-united-states.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

In Canada, [[European Canadians]] are the largest ethnic group. In Canada, the [[Indigenous peoples in Canada|indigenous]] population is growing faster than the non-indigenous population. Most immigrants in Canada come from Asia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4368970 |title=21.9% of Canadians are immigrants, the highest share in 85 years: StatsCan |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-date=30 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220530002145/https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4368970 |url-status=live}}</ref>