How come Guatemala, Peru and Bolivia all have high indigenous

When I look at mexicans I never have the impression it's only 20%

>>78877076
He means 21% of the population is pure amerindian

it's because of geography
mexican natives survived due to treaties

the sa natives due to spaniards didn't want to waste the effort to bring them off the mountains

also mexico is much larger in population than those countries 20% is around the population of those countries, it's natural population growth

the non-natives just grow faster due to immigration that natives don't have

>>78877191
Besides the colonial period, Mexico has never experienced any big immigration waves.

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>>78880845
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>>78876919
What the fuck are you talking about, Latin America is 100% Amerindian and 100% BLACK in carribbean/brazil.

Mexico is 1000000000000% Amerindian

>>78877391
That is factually wrong, Mexico received several waves during the 19th century and even on the 20th century

>>78876919
Because the Aztecs were different, they were concentrated on very large human settlements in the Anahuac valley, not spread out like other native Americans, because they were themselves used as settlers and colonizers amongst other peoples and because their leadership and nobility became a part of the system rather than outsiders to it.

There are a lot of reasons making for different outcomes here, but most of all it was because Mexico City became the most important Spanish city outside the peninsula and attracted many Spaniards during the colonial period. Don't have the numbers at hand right now but I think we are talking something like a million people for the 16th century alone, which for the era are pretty impressive numbers.