Editing Demographics of Mexico (section)

===Arab Mexicans===
{{Main|Arab Mexicans}}
[[File:Susana_Harp_en_CU.jpg|thumb|left|[[Susana Harp]] Mexican singer and currently serves as a senator.]]
An Arab Mexican is a Mexican citizen of [[Arabic]]-speaking origin who can be of various ancestral origins. The vast majority of Mexico's 1.1 million Arabs are from either Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, or [[Palestine (region)|Palestinian]] background.<ref name=Ita2005>{{cite journal |last1=Ita |first1=Rosa E. Garcia |title=Los árabes de México: Asimilación y herencia cultural |trans-title=The Arabs of Mexico. Assimilation and cultural heritage |language=es |journal=CONfines de relaciones internacionales y ciencia política |date=December 2005 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=107–109 |url=http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1870-35692005000200010 |access-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-date=December 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206192216/http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1870-35692005000200010 |url-status=live }}</ref> Immigration of Arabs in Mexico has influenced Mexican culture, in particular food, where they have introduced [[Kibbeh]], [[Tabbouleh]] and even created recipes such as ''[[Tacos Árabes]]''. By 1765, [[Phoenix dactylifera|Dates]], which originated from the Middle East, were introduced into Mexico by the Spaniards.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rivera |first1=D. |last2=Johnson |first2=D. |last3=Delgadillo |first3=J. |last4=Carrillo |first4=M. H. |last5=Obón |first5=C. |last6=Krueger |first6=R. |last7=Alcaraz |first7=F. |last8=Ríos |first8=S. |last9=Carreño |first9=E. |title=Historical evidence of the Spanish introduction of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L., Arecaceae) into the Americas |journal=Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution |year=2012 |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=1437–1439, 1444–1445 |doi=10.1007/s10722-012-9932-5 |s2cid=24146736 |url=https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/download/60761/pdf |access-date=May 8, 2022 |archive-date=June 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616052526/https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/download/60761/pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The fusion between Arab and Mexican food has highly influenced the [[Yucatán (state)|Yucatecan]] cuisine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discoverymexico.com/Culture/Arab-Influence-in-Yucatecan-Cuisine/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080316235742/http://www.discoverymexico.com/Culture/Arab-Influence-in-Yucatecan-Cuisine/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 16, 2008|title=Arab Influence in Yucatecan Cuisine – Mexico Culture – Arab Influence in Yucatecan Cuisine, Culture|date=March 16, 2008|website=Discoverymexico.com|access-date=August 29, 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Carlos_Slim_Helú.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Engineer [[Carlos Slim]]]]
Arab immigration to Mexico started in the 19th and early 20th centuries.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Velcamp|first=Theresa Alfaro|year=2005|title=Review of Arab Immigration in Mexico in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Assimilation and Arab Heritage: A Century of Palestinian Immigration into Central America: A Study of Their Economic and Cultural Contributions, Roberto Marín-Guzmán|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3879733|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|volume=37|issue=2|pages=266–269|doi=10.1017/S0020743805232063|jstor=3879733|issn=0020-7438|access-date=January 20, 2021|archive-date=January 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127231239/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3879733|url-status=live}}</ref> Roughly 100,000 Arabic-speakers settled in Mexico during this time period. They came mostly from [[Lebanon]], Syria, [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], and [[Iraq]] and settled in significant numbers in [[Nayarit]], [[Puebla]], Mexico City and the northern part of the country (mainly in the states of [[Baja California]], [[Tamaulipas]], [[Nuevo León]], [[Sinaloa]], Chihuahua, [[Coahuila]], and [[Durango]], as well as the city of [[Tampico]] and [[Guadalajara]]. During the 1948 Israel-Lebanon war and the Six-Day War, thousands of Lebanese left [[Lebanon]] for Mexico. They first arrived in [[Veracruz]]. Although Arabs made up less than 5% of the total immigrant population in Mexico during the 1930s, they constituted half of the immigrant economic activity.<ref name=Ita2005/> Another concentration of Arab-Mexicans is in [[Baja California]] facing the U.S.-Mexican border, esp. in cities of [[Mexicali, Baja California|Mexicali]] in the [[Imperial Valley (California)|Imperial Valley]] U.S./Mexico, and [[Tijuana, Baja California|Tijuana]] across from San Diego with a large [[Arab American]] community (about 280,000), some of whose families have relatives in Mexico. 45% of Arab Mexicans are of [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] descent.

[[File:Salma Hayek 2004.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Salma Hayek]], actress and film producer.]]

The majority of Arab-Mexicans are Christians who belong to the [[Maronite Church]], [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]], [[Eastern Orthodox Churches|Eastern Orthodox]] and [[Eastern Rite Catholic Churches]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-536840/Marin-Guzman-Roberto-and-Zidane.html|title=Find Local Contractors – Home Remodeling Contractors on Ecnext|website=goliath.ecnext.com|access-date=July 3, 2017|archive-date=May 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516214343/http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-536840/Marin-Guzman-Roberto-and-Zidane.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and a scant number are [[Muslims]], The term "Arab Mexican" may include ethnic groups that do not in fact identify as Arab. The inter-ethnic marriage in the Arab community, regardless of religious affiliation, is very high; most community members have only one parent of Arab ancestry. As a result, the Arab community in Mexico shows marked [[language shift]] away from Arabic. Only a few speak any Arabic, and such knowledge is often limited to a few basic words. Instead, the majority, especially those of younger generations, speak Spanish as a first language. Today, the most common Arabic [[surnames]] in Mexico include Nader, Hayek, Ali, Haddad, Nasser, Malik, Abed, Mansoor, Harb, and Elias.