Editing White people (section)

==== Argentina ====
{{Main|White Argentines|Ethnic groups of Argentina}}

[[Argentina]], along with other areas of new settlement like Canada, Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, the United States or Uruguay, is considered a country of immigrants where the vast majority originated from Europe.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6347349.stm |title=Argentina's last Jewish cowboys |publisher=BBC News |date=12 February 2007 |access-date=6 January 2010 |first=Daniel |last=Schweimler}}</ref> White people can be found in all areas of the country, but especially in the central-eastern region ([[Pampas]]), the central-western region ([[Cuyo, Argentina|Cuyo]]), the southern region ([[Patagonia]]) and the north-eastern region ([[Mesopotamia, Argentina|Litoral]]).

White Argentines are mainly descendants of [[Great European immigration wave to Argentina|immigrants]] who came from Europe and the Middle East in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.<ref name="CIA1">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/ar.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513143638/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/ar.html|url-status=dead|title=CIA – The World Factbook – Argentina|archive-date=13 May 2009}}</ref><ref>[[Enrique Oteiza]] and [[Susana Novick]] hold that «''la Argentina desde el siglo XIX, al igual que Australia, Canadá o Estados Unidos, se convierte en un país de inmigración, entendiendo por esto una sociedad que ha sido conformada por un fenómeno inmigratorio masivo, a partir de una población local muy pequeña.»'' [http://www.iigg.fsoc.uba.ar/pobmigra/archivos/rc31.pdf Iigg.fsoc.uba.ar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531184634/http://www.iigg.fsoc.uba.ar/pobmigra/archivos/rc31.pdf|date=31 May 2011}}</ref><ref>El antropólogo brasileño [[Darcy Ribeiro]] incluye a la Argentina dentro de los ''«pueblos trasplantados»'' de América, junto con Uruguay, Canadá y Estados Unidos (Ribeiro, Darcy. ''Las Américas y la Civilización'' (1985). Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, pp. 449 ss.)</ref><ref>El historiador argentino [[José Luis Romero (historian)|José Luis Romero]] define a la Argentina como un ''«país aluvial» (Romero, José Luis. «Indicación sobre la situación de las masas en Argentina (1951)», en'' La experiencia Argentina y otros ensayos'', Buenos Aires: Universidad de Belgrano, 1980, p. 64)''</ref> After the regimented Spanish colonists, waves of European settlers came to Argentina from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Major contributors included [[Italy]] (initially from [[Piedmont]], Veneto and [[Lombardy]], later from [[Campania]], Calabria, and [[Sicily]]),<ref>[http://www.feditalia.org.ar/arg/federaciones/feditalia_org_fed_regionales.html Federaciones Regionales] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160502020738/http://www.feditalia.org.ar/arg/federaciones/feditalia_org_fed_regionales.html |date=2 May 2016 }} feditalia.org.ar</ref> and [[Spain]] (most are [[Galician people|Galicians]] and [[Basque people|Basques]], but there are [[Asturian people|Asturians]], [[Cantabrian people|Cantabrians]], [[Catalan people|Catalans]], and [[Andalusian people|Andalusians]]). Smaller but significant numbers of immigrants include Germans, primarily [[Volga Germans]] from [[Russia]], but also Germans from Germany, Switzerland, and [[Austria]]; French which mainly came from the [[Occitania]] region of France; [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]], which already conformed an important community since colonial times; Slavic groups, most of which were [[Croats]], [[Bosniaks]], [[Polish people|Poles]], but also [[Ukrainian people|Ukrainians]], [[Belarusian people|Belarusians]], [[Russian people|Russians]], [[Bulgarian people|Bulgarians]], [[Serbs]] and [[Montenegrins (ethnic group)|Montenegrins]]; Britons, mainly from England and [[Wales]]; Irish who migrated due to the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Irish Famine]] or prior famines and Scandinavians from [[Sweden]], Denmark, [[Finland]], and [[Norway]]. Smaller waves of settlers from Australia and South Africa, and the United States can be traced in Argentine immigration records.

By the 1910s, after immigration rates peaked, over 30 percent of the country's population was from outside Argentina, and over half of [[Buenos Aires]]' population was foreign-born.<ref>[http://alhim.revues.org/document432.html Dinámica migratoria: coyuntura y estructura en la Argentina de fines del XX] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101022944/http://alhim.revues.org/document432.html |date=1 November 2008 }}. Alhim.revues.org (3 November 2004).</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/anu_estadistico/01/web01/c110.htm|title=Buenosaires.gov.ar|access-date=16 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929183555/http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/hacienda/sis_estadistico/anu_estadistico/01/web01/c110.htm|archive-date=29 September 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>
However, the 1914 National Census revealed that around 80% of the national population were either European immigrants, their children or grandchildren.<ref name=rock>Rock, David. ''Argentina: 1516–1982''. University of California Press, 1987.</ref> Among the remaining 20 percent (those descended from the population residing locally before this immigrant wave took shape in the 1870s), around a third were White.<ref>Levene, Ricardo. ''History of Argentina''. University of North Carolina Press, 1937.</ref> European immigration continued to account for over half the nation's population growth during the 1920s and was again significant (albeit in a smaller wave) following [[World War II]].<ref name=rock /> It is estimated that Argentina received over 6 million European immigrants during the period 1857–1940.<ref>[http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1990/1/90.01.06.x.html Yale immigration study] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416083729/http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1990/1/90.01.06.x.html |date=16 April 2016 }}. Yale.edu.</ref>

Since the 1960s, increasing immigration from bordering countries to the north (especially from [[Bolivia]] and [[Paraguay]], which have [[Amerindian]] and [[Mestizo]] majorities) has lessened that majority somewhat.<ref name=rock />

Criticism of the national census states that data has historically been collected using the category of national origin rather than race in Argentina, leading to undercounting [[Afro-Argentine]]s and Mestizos.<ref>[http://academic.udayton.edu/race/06hrights/georegions/southamerica/argentina01.htm Racial Discrimination in Argentina] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203633/http://academic.udayton.edu/race/06hrights/georegions/southamerica/argentina01.htm |date=3 March 2016 }}. Academic.udayton.edu.</ref> {{lang|es|África Viva}} (Living Africa) is a black rights group in [[Buenos Aires]] with the support of the [[Organization of American States]], financial aid from the [[World Bank]] and Argentina's census bureau is working to add an "Afro-descendants" category to the 2010 census. The 1887 national census was the final year where blacks were included as a separate category before it was eliminated by the government.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/27/MNGH0FU3UG1.DTL |title=Blacks in Argentina – officially a few, but maybe a million |first=Ruthie |last=Ackerman |date=27 November 2005 |work=The San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref>