Editing Demographics of Honduras (section)

=== Mestizos ===
[[Mestizos]] (meaning mixed European and Amerindian) have been reported by the [[CIA World Factbook]] to be about 87% of the population of Honduras.<ref name="CIA Factbook"/> As in other Latin American countries, the question of racial breakdown of a national population is contentious. Since the beginning of the 20th century at least, Honduras has publicly framed itself as a mestizo nation, along with other Latin American countries such as [[Guatemala]] or Mexico, ignoring and at times disparaging both the European component of the population and the surviving Amerindian population that was still regarded as "pure blooded". It's well known that many Hondurans of European or almost entirely Amerindian background consider themselves mestizo.<ref name="Dario Euraque 2003 pp. 229-49">Dario Euraque, "The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana Economy, 1920s and 1930s," in Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, eds. ''Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas'' (Duke University Press, 2003), pp. 229–49.</ref><ref>Dario Euraque, "Antropólogos, archaeólogos, imperialismo y la mayanicación de Honduras, 1890–1940," ''Revista Historia'' 45 (2002): 73–103</ref>

Because of social stigmas attached, many Honduran people denied having African ancestry, and after African descended Caribbean workers arrived in Honduras, an active campaign to denigrate all people of African descent, made persons of mixed race anxious to deny any African ancestry. Hence official statistics quite uniformly under-represent those people who have ancestry in favor of a "two race" solution.<ref name="Dario Euraque 2003 pp. 229-49"/>

Examples of Honduran mestizos are, Poet [[Clementina Suárez|Clementina Suarez]], novelist and poet [[Roberto Sosa (poet)|Roberto Sosa]], footballer [[Noel Valladares]] and former president [[Manuel Zelaya]].
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File:José Trinidad Reyes2.PNG|Jose Trinidad Reyes, Founder of the National University
File:Rigobertoparedes.jpg|Writer and poet, Rigoberto Paredes.
File:Roberto Sosa.jpg|Novelist, Roberto Sosa
File:NoelValladares.jpg|Footballer, [[Noel Valladares|Noél Valladares]] 
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