Editing White people (section)

==== Cuba ====
{{Main|White Cubans}}
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="font-size:88%;"
|-
|[[Cubans|Cuba]]
| 64.1%
| 7,160,399
| 2012<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.onei.gob.cu/sites/default/files/publicacion_completa_color_de_la_piel__0.pdf|title=El Color de la Piel Según el Censo de Población y Viviendas de 2012|date=February 2016|accessdate=3 December 2022}}</ref>
|}

White people in Cuba make up 64.1% of the total population according to the 2012 census<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.one.cu/ |title=2012 Cuban Census |publisher=One.cu |date=28 April 2006 |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-date=26 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226105518/http://www.one.cu/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.latercera.com/noticia/mundo/2013/11/678-550807-9-censo-en-cuba-concluye-que-la-poblacion-decrece-envejece-y-se-vuelve-cada-vez.shtml |title=Censo en Cuba concluye que la población decrece, envejece y se vuelve cada vez más mestiza |publisher=Grupo Copesa |date=8 November 2013 |work=latercera.com |access-date=16 July 2015 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305020219/http://www.latercera.com/noticia/mundo/2013/11/678-550807-9-censo-en-cuba-concluye-que-la-poblacion-decrece-envejece-y-se-vuelve-cada-vez.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> with the majority being of diverse Spanish descent. However, after the mass exodus resulting from the [[Cuban Revolution]] in 1959, the number of white Cubans actually residing in Cuba diminished. Today various records claiming the percentage of Whites in Cuba are conflicting and uncertain; some reports (usually coming from Cuba) still report a less, but similar, pre-1959 number of 65% and others (usually from outside observers) report a 40–45%. Despite most White Cubans being of Spanish descent, many others are of French, Portuguese, German, Italian and Russian descent.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.cubagenweb.org/french/index.htm#refugees |title=Etat des propriétés rurales appartenant à des Français dans l'île de Cuba}} (from [http://www.cubagenweb.org/ Cuban Genealogy Center])</ref>

During the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early part of the twentieth century, large waves of [[Canarian people|Canarians]], [[Catalan people|Catalans]], [[Andalusian people|Andalusians]], [[Castilian people|Castilians]], and [[Galician people|Galicians]] emigrated to Cuba. Many [[History of the Jews in Cuba|European Jews]] have also immigrated there, with some of them being [[Sephardic Jews|Sephardic]].<ref>{{cite news |url= http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/travel/04journeys.html?em&ex=1170824400&en=254a263b2686376e&ei=5087%0A |title=In Cuba, Finding a Tiny Corner of Jewish Life |access-date=19 November 2008 |work=The New York Times |date=4 February 2007}}</ref> Between 1901 and 1958, more than a million Spaniards arrived to Cuba from Spain; many of these and their descendants left after Castro's communist [[Cuban Revolution|regime took power]]. Historically, Chinese descendants in Cuba were classified as White.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/CCC&CISOPTR=1683&REC=5&CISOBOX=foreign|title=Report on the Census of Cuba, 1899|website=Digital.tcl.sc.edu|access-date=19 April 2022|page=81}}</ref>

In 1953, it was estimated that 72.8% of Cubans were of European ancestry, mainly of Spanish origin, 12.4% of African ancestry, 14.5% of both African and European ancestry (mulattos), and 0.3% of the population was of Chinese and or East Asian descent (officially called "amarilla" or "yellow" in the census). However, after the [[Cuban revolution]], due to a combination of factors, mainly mass [[Emigration|exodus]] to Miami, United States, a drastic decrease in immigration, and interracial reproduction, Cuba's demography changed. As a result, those of complete European ancestry and those of pure African ancestry have decreased, the mixed population has increased, and the Chinese (or East Asian) population has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared.<ref name="Cuban Census">{{cite web|title=El Color de la Piel según el Censo de Población y Viviendas|pages=8, 17–18 |url=http://www.onei.gob.cu/sites/default/files/publicacion_completa_color_de_la_piel__0.pdf|access-date=19 April 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220121050600/http://www.onei.gob.cu/sites/default/files/publicacion_completa_color_de_la_piel__0.pdf |archive-date=21 January 2022|website=Cuba Statistics and Information}}</ref>

The Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies at the [[University of Miami]] says the present Cuban population is 38% White and 62% Black/Mulatto.<ref name="barrier">{{cite web|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/afrolatin/part4/index.html|title=A barrier for Cuba's blacks – New attitudes on once-taboo race questions emerge with a fledgling black movement|website=[[Miami Herald]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130821113550/http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/afrolatin/part4/index.html|archive-date=21 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Minority Rights Group International]] says that "An objective assessment of the situation of Afro-Cubans remains problematic due to scant records and a paucity of systematic studies both pre- and post-revolution. Estimates of the percentage of people of African descent in the Cuban population vary enormously, ranging from 33.9 per cent to 62 per cent".<ref>{{Cite news |title=World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples – Cuba: Afro-Cubans |author=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|work=Refworld |url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49749d342c.html |access-date=17 January 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,COUNTRYPROF,CUB,4562d94e2,4954ce3123,0.html |title=World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples – Cuba: Overview |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510214518/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,COUNTRYPROF,CUB,4562d94e2,4954ce3123,0.html |archive-date=10 May 2011}}</ref>