Editing White people (section)

==== Venezuela ====
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|[[Venezuelan people|Venezuela]]
| 43.6%
| 13,169,949 
| 2011<ref name="INE">{{cite web|url=http://www.ine.gob.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/nacional.pdf|title=Resultado Básico del XIV Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2011 (Mayo 2014)|pages=14, 65|website=Ine.gov.ve|access-date=19 June 2022}}</ref>
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{{Main|Venezuelans of European descent|Venezuelan people|Immigration to Venezuela}}

According to the official Venezuelan census, the term "White" involves external issues such as light skin, shape, and color of hair and eyes, among other factors. Though the meaning and usage of the term "White" has varied in different ways depending on the time period and area, leaving its precise definition as somewhat confusing. The 2011 Venezuelan Census states that "White" in Venezuela is used to describe Venezuelans of European origin.<ref name="INE" /> The 2011 National Population and Housing Census states that 43.6% of the Venezuelan population (approx. 13.1 million people) identify as White.<ref name="INE" /><ref name="ine.gob.ve">[http://www.ine.gob.ve/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=95&Itemid=26 Ine.gob.ve] Venezuelan population by 30 June 2014 is 30,206,2307 according to the National Institute of Statistics</ref> [[Genetic research]] by the [[University of Brasília]] shows an average admixture of 60.6% European, 23.0% Amerindian and 16.3% African ancestry in Venezuelan populations.<ref name=UB>{{cite thesis |last1=Godinho |first1=Neide Maria de Oliveira |title=O impacto das migrações na constituição genética de populações latino-americanas |trans-title=The impact of migration on the genetic makeup of Latin American populations |language=pt |date=2008 |url=https://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/5542 |access-date=17 November 2020 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112044147/https://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/5542 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The majority of White Venezuelans are of Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German descent. Nearly half a million European immigrants, mostly from Spain (as a consequence of the [[Spanish Civil War]]), Italy, and Portugal, entered the country during and after World War II, attracted by a prosperous, rapidly developing country where educated and skilled immigrants were welcomed.

Spaniards were introduced into [[Venezuela]] during the colonial period. Most of them were from [[Andalusia]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]] and from the [[Canary Islands]]. Until the last years of World War II, a large part of the European immigrants to Venezuela came from the Canary Islands, and its cultural impact was significant, influencing the development of Castilian in the country, its gastronomy, and customs. With the beginning of oil operations during the first decades of the twentieth century, citizens and companies from the United States, United Kingdom, and [[Netherlands]] established themselves in Venezuela. Later, in the middle of the century, there was a new wave of originating immigrants from [[Spain]] (mainly from Galicia, Andalucia and the Basque Country), [[Italy]] (mainly from southern Italy and Venice) and [[Portugal]] (from Madeira) and new immigrants from [[Germany]], [[France]], [[England]], [[Croatia]], [[Netherlands]], and other European countries, among others, animated simultaneously by the program of immigration and colonization implanted by the government.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}