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Number of Spanish people in Spain

The introduction of this article leads one to believe that it is about Spanish people of European ethnicity. It says there are 41,242,592 Spanish people in Spain, that's 88%. But in the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Spain, it says that "Native-born Spanish citizens of all races and ethnic groups make up 88% of the total population, and 12% are immigrants." Many native born Spanish people aren't ethnically European despite having Spanish nationality, in fact in this other article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Spain it says that "In the same way the majority of children born in Spain between 2000 and 2010 are children of immigrants despite not counting as such."

Moreover, Spain grants nationality to immigrants from South America after 2 years of residence and after 10 for others. Assuming that a sizable portion of these immigrants have obtained Spanish nationality, there is no way the number is near 41,242,592. The article linked to says explicitly that the 12% figure is about people with no Spanish nationality.

The birth rate among ethnic European Spanish people has been way below the replacement level since decades ago when the population was around 38 million. I suggest either of two things, if this article isn't about Spanish ethnicity, then delete the figures of people of Spanish ancestry who aren't from Spain, make it clear in the introduction that this figure includes people of European, Amerindian and North African descent and add approximate numbers for each.

If this article IS about Spanish people of European ancestry, then round the number of the ones living in Spain to ~35 million. If no citation can be provided for this number then remove the figure altogether and add "it is thought that...". Right now this article is completely misleading for people trying to find a figure of Spanish people of European ancestry living in Spain.

For the moment I will replace the first paragraph of the introduction to one similar to what the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_people has. "French people refers to people born in France and the legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry." Except that I can't provide a reference to a constitutional article. This change implies further changes in the rest of the article because it doesn't reflect what the article is about. I will wait until someone replies to this comment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.39.171.17 (talk) 12:06, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Then change the numbers. Sourced, of course. The French people question is more complex due to legal definitions in France that deny the concept of ethnicity. The Ogre (talk) 14:08, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I can't provide source. I can't find any valid secondary source but that doesn't mean that the 41 million figure is correct. I can provide source to show that the 41 million figure is wrong but not to show that the real figure is around 35 million. Like many other European countries Spain doesn't keep track of ethnicity, so I don't know any way a valid sourced number could be put there except the ~35 million estimation which of course I can't add. I suggest simply changing the number to Unknown. Can I do this?
I would also like to raise another issue of consistency that I have seen across Wikipedia. The French people article is NOT about the French ethnicity, the Spanish people IS about the Spanish ethnicity, the Swedish people article IS about the Swedish ethnicity while the German article is NOT. There are more but you get the message. Not only that but if you go to the article Germany for example, under Ethnicity it will list 91% Germans which is actually the number of people with German nationality, not of ethnic Germans which is actually lower. Also the word "Germans" next to the percentage links to the article Germans which isn't about the German ethnicity. Same for Spain where it says 88%. This is wrong information which I think should be revised for every article of each country. Where you can't know the percentage it should say Unknown instead of having wrong information. I would make the changes right now but I want your confirmation because I'm pretty sure they will be deleted otherwise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.39.171.17 (talk) 17:53, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The reason for this discrepancy is that I have only recently started going through some articles on European nations in order to fact-check them. There is no such thing as an "ethnic German" as of today, nor any clear way to determine whether someone belongs to this imaginary group. There is an article on Volksdeutsche which is sort of the same. You can look at the talk pages [[Talk:Germans], Talk:Danes, Talk:Norwegians and Talk:Austrians. On each one of theme I've gone through all the sources about allegedly "ethnic" people from those countries living somewhere else in the world, only to conclude that the numbers show completely different things and cannot be compared. Most European countries define being an X as having citizenship in that country with a few exceptions -- such as the Danish minority in Southern Schleswig or the Austrian minority in South Tyrol who are seen as respectively Danish and Austrian although they don't have citizenship, and on the other hand the Samii people in Norway who are not Norwegians although they have Norwegian citizenship. In all these cases this is however a completely voluntary act for the individual -- meaning that the individual has to decide whether he feels like he is a South Schleswigan Danish minority person or a Samii. Most likely the case is the same for those European nations I have not looked at so far. If you have the time to do so, please go ahead and check the references and document it well why certain figures don't work or how it is defined to be a Spanish, Dutch or Swede by the given state's institutions before changing the corresponding article. --Johanneswilm (talk) 22:06, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for answering. Then I think if there isn't such a thing as "ethnic German" in the section Ethnicity for Germany it shouldn't say 91% German. Same for the other countries, including 88% in the article Spain. There is not an issue about what it is to be a Spaniard or Swede, they could be of any ethnicity. Even if a Middle Eastern person has lived in Sweden all his life but doesn't have Swedish nationality he would feel more Swedish than anything and probably in anyone's opinion he would in fact be a Swede. There is a distinction here about what it is to be from a country and what is to belong to a certain ethnic group. The former is subjective while the latter one isn't, if no real number can be provided then none should be provided at all.
You could say that the ethnic groups of Spain are 75% European, 10% Amerindian, 10% North African and 5% Sub-Saharan African (made up numbers). What does being ethnic Spanish mean then? In my first edit I added "regardless of ancestry" to the introduction but the other editor said it was about "ethnic Spaniards". The issue here is that the numbers and percentages across all Wikipedia articles for European countries are mixing two different concepts and providing the wrong figures. I will gladly try to document it as well as I can and won't change any more pages until I've a senior editor's confirmation but I think editing is the only way to get attention unless I write in your talk page. Please read this other comment I added on this other editor's talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tbhotch.
Meanwhile I think the references I provided are enough to justify that the 41 million figure is wrong from what the other editor implied this article is about. I won't change anything else but I think it should say Unknown here as well as in the percentage of the section ethnicity in the article Spain. Thanks again.

--Grondolf (talk) 22:45, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Brazil

How can Spaniards outnumber Portuguese in the Portuguese colony of Brazil? Anwar saadat (talk) 10:50, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know this is old but, for the same reason German-americans outnumber British-americans in the ex-british colony of the United States. More Spanish immigrated to Brazil than Portuguese. The same thing happened in America.--Ace Oliveira (talk) 15:35, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This is not true. More Portuguese immigrated to Brazil than any other people (despite "Africans", who would actually be from different countries). Opinoso (talk) 01:00, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • brazil is the most arab country in the world out of arab world; brazil is the most japanese country out of japan; brazil is the most italian country out of italy..

The 9,000,000 to 15,000,000 or so ´Spaniards´in Chile do not see themselves so.

Many Chileans would be offended by these figures as they do not consider their ethnicity or indeed ethnic origin as Spanish. In Chile, Spanish Chielans are only Spanish Civil War refugees and their descendents, as they have a cultural affinity to Spain.

Chile has it´s own culture distint to the Spanish one, and just because your country was colonised by Spain 500 years ago and you happened to have a Spanish conquistador or soldier as one of your ancestors don´t make you Spanish. Most Chileans, even though they might have one of the early Spanish settlers as an ancestor, mainly have origins in other European immigrants who came after independence from Spain and make Chile Chilean. Chile is not a cheap copy of Andalusia like it might have been in the 17th or 18th century. Chile is different. Indeed, Peru might be a cheap copy of Castile with the Quechua cultural influences, a Castile planted in the Andes, but Chile is not Andalusia planted in the Southern Cone. The huaso costume might have had its origins in the independence period just before the other Europeans came, but Chilean folk culture changed.

Spaniards are people who see themselves so and considers their cultural and indeen ancestral affinities with Spain, it isn´t someone who happens to have Spanish ancestry from the distant past. It is like saying that English people are Germans coz they are descended from Anglo-Saxons and speak a Germanic language or Americans are English people. You go round Chile telling people that they are ´Spanish´, they will not take it kindly as Spain was first an oppressor who kept the country poor, and secondly, an enemy. It is an insult to Chilean national identity and dignity to reduced them to and label them Spaniards. If in doubt go to the ´Spanish Chilean´ page.86.162.152.39 (talk) 19:52, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are right. The population figures are quite a sham! They imply that anyone having a Spanish ancestor is a Spaniard! The number should only refer to people who sel´f-identify as Spanish. The same used to happen in Portuguese people, with some editor trying to count almost any Brazilian as Portuguese. It was corrected and it also should be here. The Ogre (talk) 13:07, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree about the main issues. Anyway, I have to say that there is also some cheap coments there, like the Spanish keeping the country poor. After centuries of independence it is about time that you star taking responsability for yourselves. If you are not rich ask your own government and people. Kun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.12.154.14 (talk) 15:20, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article is the spaniard ( spanish ethnic ) and the 52.7% of the chilean people is spaniard or spanish ethnic.- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.45.118.106 (talk) 14:56, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

About Regions with significant populations

The statistics in the Regions with significant populations part of the infobox are absolutely fanciful and the supposed references not only are unreliable but also they don't state what is referenced. I think it's time to remove that eyesore. Everyone agrees? --Jotamar (talk) 00:24, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Kun.

I agree. The Count of Monte Cristo (talk) 00:28, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've just removed the statistics for most countries, which where based on unrelated or unavailable sources. The amount claimed for the USA looks very dubious, but at least there is a remote justification for it. --Jotamar (talk) 13:51, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oh by all means if two people agree, do it! All of those sources were fine. This does not count as a "consensus." 71.204.157.119 (talk) 01:56, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish people from Latinamerica

Some Mexican editors seem to consider that 9 to 15 million people in Mexico are ethnically Spanish. To support this they offer:

  • a Tour operator page about tourism in Mexico: roughly as unreliable as it gets. But even worse...
  • a link to the Encyclopaedia Britannica which simply does not have anything even remotely similar to the 9 to 15 million claim.

However, all that is not the real problem. The real problem is this: what have all those millions to be counted as ethnically Spanish? Note that we alrady had a discussion in About Regions with significant populations, where there was an agreement to erase the figures of Spanish people based exclusively on presumed ancestry and white race.

  • If the reason to include someone as part of the Spanish people is simply ancestry, the amount for Mexico and other Latinamerican countries would probably get near 100% of the population... rather preposterous.
  • If the reason are cultural traits, then we should know which are those traits, how they are different between individuals and what statistics we have about them.
  • If the reason is whatever I can't think of, please enlighten me!
  • I really would like to know if a conversation like this is common in Mexico:
Jotamar, you have got to be joking... Join us for a moment in reality. You're correct when you say that "all that is not the real problem" - We know what the real problem is by your comments and imagined "conversation" between Mexicans in your head.
We are looking at "simple ancestry" as you suggest, yet you seemed to stop making sense there.
Mexico's total population is around 111,211,789 (July 2009). Encyclopedia Britannica lists Mexicans of European heritage (“whites”), as 'nearly more' than 1/6th of the total pop. That's about 18,535,300 people - And of course there are other European groups in Mexico such as the French, Italians, Germans etc. But no European group nearly as large as the Spanish one. I should also mention that no one is counting Mestizos which puts the figure of "people with Spanish ancestry in Mexico" much, much higher - a fact that you seem not to believe - with your little illustration. Well, you can believe it.
According to your mentalilty, living in a different country takes away an Iberian's (and their unmixed descendants) Spanish blood... Their blood doesn't magically "transform" just from being in Mexico or any other country (for how ever long it might be - hundreds of years to a couple decades or less). You ask "what have all those millions to be counted as 'ethnically Spanish'"... And you answered your own question: The fact that they ARE ethnically Spanish. If you have a basic grasp on Mexican history, you'll know that most Europeans in Mexico are Spanish and most Mestizos are of the Spanish variety - without needing anyone else to tell you. Here's an important concept: 'Immigration'! - and it has happened for almost 500 YEARS (Spain to Mexico). By the way, you might like to know that there are more people of Spanish ancestry in Latin America than in Spain itself.
Also, the 'regions of significant populations' were "erased based on presumed ancestry and the white race"... So that means your presumed "Spanish" ancestry is incorrect as well? We can even go a step farther and ask "How do we know you are not 1/8 Arab or North African?" - and you may be. The fact that you might live in Spain isn't concrete evidence of anything according to your own thinking process. That is a ridiculous move, to erase other Spanish populations because you and others like you think they are "presumed". C.Kent87 (talk) 23:36, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You're right, I have Arab ancestry but I'm not an ethnic Arab. Because ethnicity is about culture, not ancestry.
You seem to like the Britannica, so I've copied here what they have to say about ethnicity:
Ethnicity: Ethnicity refers to the identification of a group based on a perceived cultural distinctiveness that makes the group into a “people.” This distinctiveness is believed to be expressed in language, music, values, art, styles, literature, family life, religion, ritual, food, naming, public life, and material culture.....
So, as soon as you find any serious source that defines an ethnicity in terms of presumed ancestry, we can go on with the discussion. Meanwhile, I cling to the consensus reached in a previous discussion, and I revert again your edit. --Jotamar (talk) 15:52, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

@Jotomar: Whatever the discussion or "agreements" that people have reached in this article to "decide" who has Spanish ancestry is purely ORIGINAL RESEARCH. Wikipedia is a place to include information that is sourced and verifiable. You can't delete information based in what you "think". You have to stick to the rules and most importantly, to the sources. Your attitude is not constructive. It seems that rather than helping us find the "right sources" to sustain the amount of Mexicans with Spanish ancestry, you're up to DENY that such ancenstry exist in the Mexican population. In other words, you're just being what people might think is racism. AlexCovarrubias ( Talk? ) 23:01, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll devise a solution for this discussion, hopefully a definitive one, in some weeks when I have enough free time. --Jotamar (talk) 16:59, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Having Spanish ancestry does not make a person "Spanish". Being Spanish is a mater of nationality and of feeling to belong to the Spanish people. I'm pretty sure that Mexicans do not feel to be Spanish, since they have their own Mexican ethnic feeling. Millions of humans may have ancestors from what is now Spain and from any other part of the world, because humans first appered in Africa, and later they left Africa and started to populate the rest of the world, so we all have ancestors who lived in different parts of the world. A person from China may have remote ancestors who lived in Spain centuries and centuries before that part of the world became Spain.

What I'm saying is that ancestry is not important at all to claim a person as Spanish. How about adopted children? How many people may think they have Spanish ancestry from a Spanish great-grandparent, when in fact the grandparent was adopted by that Spanish person? I heard that 10% of the world population have recent ancestors who were actually adopted children. Then, a person may think to be of Spanish ancestry, when in the reality the person may have 0% of Spanish blood. In fact race, ancestry or ethnicity are all part of popular imagination, it denotes what people think they are, not the reality. Spaniards are people from Spain, or people born abroad who self-reported to be Spanish. People with remote Spanish ancestors are not Spaniards. Opinoso (talk) 01:56, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Opinoso, what you say is what I was trying to explain. --Jotamar (talk) 16:11, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ask anybody about their ethnicity and ancestry is central, but in itself it is not enough as to ones identity. Culture also matters as much as ancestry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.221.29.182 (talk) 00:28, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why only spanish people have dna discussion in wikipedia

I just i'm wondering why spaniards are constantly being analyzed genetically everywhere. In the "english people" page (like german, irish, etc..) there is no dna discussion. Is this page an antropology web or what?. Is this really relevant? If the answer is yes, then, why 'genetics' is only relevant on spanish people page and not on english, german,etc...?You are obsessed with spanish dna. —Preceding unsigned comment

I second the comment above. I find it difficult to justify why an article on Spanish people needs an extensive section on genetics, and why this doesn't occur in articles for other European peoples. As a matter of fact, I request the suppression of the whole section. Drar3g (talk) 15:06, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am still waiting for a response to this question ¿WHY GENETICS IS ONLY RELEVANT ON SPANISH PEOPLE PLAGE? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.145.16.10 (talk) 08:03, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Genetics section neutrality

In regard to the "Sephardic result" in the above mentioned section, it seem like all efforts were made by editors here to deny this result with measures that are not in line with Wikipedia rules. First, studies that are cited to contradict this result make no such claims and deald with different lineages than those were studied in the 2008 research. Second, the results are not in contradiction with non of the previous studies as the 2008 study was focused on other lineages and is the first to make such a comparison between Jewish people and Spanish people. The attempt to replace the Jewish result with imaginary Phoenician one was involved blatant distortion of what the source that was cited as one in contradiction with the Sephardic result said...We do have one valid citation of Spanish professor who said that as Jewish and Phoenician DNA are hard to distinguish the conclusions of the 2008 study are questionable, however -he preformed no study to refute these results and in any case was answered adequately that Phoenicians are not relevant in this case as the results reflect common heritage less than 1000 years ago. I edited this part of the section time after time in accordance with reliable and verified sources and without distorting the facts-but time after time my edits were reverted on the behalf of edits that are not in line with Wikipedia standards. Hence, I add a tag of disputed neutrality to this section.--Gilisa (talk) 09:44, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The studies that are cited as contradicting the Sephardim result attribute the J2 lineages found in Spain (In Adams et al interpreted as Sephardim) to either Neolithic farmers, Phoenician seamen or deny Jewish ancestry among Spaniards (the study with Spanish-Americans). Those studies have been published in peer-reviewed journals and have the same validity as Adams et al. to qualify as sources. Actually they have more validity and I think they need to be given more importance, since they display a consensus. There are actually many more studies that contradict the Sephardim interpretation (for example every study about Neolithic influence on modern Europeans, quite a few), being the Neolithic, Phoenician and Greco-Roman settlements the actual academic consensus in mainstream population genetics about the origin of most of the J2 found in Spain or elsewhere in Europe. Simply by looking at J2 frequencies in any European population there is no way to tell apart "Jewish ancestry" from Neolithic, Roman, Greek or Phoenician/Levantine/Semite since all those populations are heavy J2 carriers. You can only speculate. All those peoples made settlements in Spain, so it's (still) not possible to quantify the specific contribution of J2 by any of those groups. Here is a page with the averages of Y chromosome frequencies of all European populations, averages obtained from all the major genetic studies done in Europe. According to Adams at al., of all European countries, only in Spain the J2 would be of Jewish origin, and, true or not, that is just one interpretation for the J2 found in Spain and that discrepancy between studies needs to be mentioned. J2 is spread in all of Europe and most European countries have similar or higher frequencies than those found in Spain, corresponding to Neolithic/Phoenician/Greco-Roman settlement patters, which include Spain. The only lineage analized in that study that is as today of indisputable Jewish/Semite origin is J1, and if you check the haplogroup frequencies in the Adams et al. paper you will see how the Sephardim sample has a very similar proportion of J1 to J2, while in the Spanish samples J1 is very low compared to the J2. Obviously most of the J2 comes from other sources (this is why they say in the study "despite alternative sources"). And by the way, they are also the only study in the mainstream scientific literature to attribute the I frequencies in Spain to a Sephardim origin. You could actually use as contradicting sources to Adams et al. all the studies that attribute those I lineages in Spain and elswhere in Europe as a result of the Germanic expansion. And by the way, the reason why the paper gives higher frequencies of J2, J1 and E1b1b1b (E-M81) than all the other studies done in Spain is because for some reason they didn't analize all the common haplogroups present in the Spanish population, instead choosing to focus on the few more representative, but ignoring others that are also quite common (check the eupedia averages). I wouldn't put much trust on that paper, specially on the historical interpretations, but it was a major study and needs to be mentioned.
If you still don't understand why there is no way to tell apart who made what contribution of J2 (or I) to Spain, before editing this page again please make sure to read the wikipedia page about European Neolithic genetics and check all the sources posted. If you don't understand about population genetics or why J2 is interpreted in different ways in some papers but still feel that the Sephardim interpretation is being injustly put down (which I'm afraid is the case), here is some non-technical and easy to understand for the layman criticism about the paper made on the most read blog about population genetics on the Internet. There is a reason why on every interview about that study the authors are remarkably ambiguous about their Sephardim theory, since they know that what they call "Jewish" could be called equally "Neolithic", "Phoenician", "Roman", etc. Actually I remember a quote made by one of the authors during an interview in which he acknowledges that the 20% figure is virtually impossible, since there was never such a high Jewish population living in Spain at any time in history (adding to that the subsequent expulsions). I can search for that interview (it was published on the online edition of a popular Spanish newspaper) and add it to the section as a source along with all the other Neolithic and haplogroup I papers, but I think that would be a bit of an overkill since that paragraph is already quite sourced. --80.30.165.186 (talk) 22:52, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The guy that created this section deleted for some reason the Phoenician study. The study needs to stay in that section for two reasons: is about Spanish genetics, it deals with the same lineages as Adams et al., was published in a peer-reviewed journal and has been cited in other studies and, more important (and puzzling) was made from the same team that produced Adams et al just months after. I'm restoring how that section was worded before Gilisa decided for himself to erase it, even though that section was the result of consensus.--193.152.157.162 (talk) 23:22, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism with Peru and Mexico

PERU NOT HAVE 9.0 MILLION OF SAPANIARD O SPANISH ETHNIC, THE WHITE PEOPLE IN PERU IS OF 15% OR 4.3 MILLION OF PERUVIANS IN THE MEXICO CASE, THIS COUNTRY NOT HAVE 80 MILLION OF SAPANIARD . THE WITHE PEOPLE IN MEXICO IS 15 MILLION . MEXICAN AND PERUVIAN , ARE INDIGENOUS NATIONS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.45.118.106 (talk) 04:37, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There was no vandalism before your changes, only sources. These figures are in the "related" section and are figures for the racially related populations - that means those related to the Spanish through ancestry = criollos AND mestizos, etc. Furthermore, unmixed whites in Mexico are around 17-18% or 19-20 million - and, Mexico, of all Hispanic countries, has the largest number of mestizos. Also, the label "indigenous nation" does not fit, despite the pride for it's Indigenous past. Please do not revert sourced statistics. C.Kent87 (talk) 09:17, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
how can be 80000000 persons in mexico of spanish ancestry?that it just ridiculous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.3.217.177 (talk) 14:51, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It has already been explained. C.Kent87 (talk) 23:10, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
where and how? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.3.217.177 (talk) 23:21, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Refer to all comments. C.Kent87 (talk) 09:59, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't use ALL CAPS; it's tiresome.
You say: Peru not have 9.0 million of Sapaniard o Spanish ethnic, the white people in Peru is of 15% or 4.3 million of Peruvians.
But this is about "ethnic Spanish descent", a vague and undefined term and not necessarily the same as being of "Spanish ethnicity". And there's no particular reason to believe that it's the same as "white".
Where are the sources for your assertions? (Why should anyone believe what you say?) -- Hoary (talk) 11:38, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This article has an infobox that lists the numbers of "people who are related by ancestry".

If somebody's Spanish ancestry is limited to a single "great" (×N) grandparent from Spain (where N is as high as you like), I take it that she'd be related by ancestry. I don't know how anyone could find this out.

If "related by ancestry" means something else, I'd like to see what it means.

I checked the references adduced for these numbers. One's in Portuguese; I left it as I do not read Portuguese. One even announced that it was a Wikipedia scrape. None of the others said what it was claimed in this article that it said.

This part of the article strikes me as worse than worthless: it confidently gives unsourced, meaningless numbers that may actually impress its more gullible readers. -- Hoary (talk) 11:59, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

80,000,000 in Mexico?

Mexicans with Spanish ancestry are in total 80 million people, but the criollos are only 15% of the total population of Mexico (approximately 16 million criollos).[1]

Or 18-20 million. And yes, "Mexicans with Spanish ancestry are in total 80 million people"... And it is entered in the 'Related Category'. Yet User talk:190.209.46.146 keeps reverting and edit warring about it. All with Spanish ancestry - "related" - need to be counted. Other countries should be edited to reflect that as well. C.Kent87 (talk) 10:24, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The European descent Argentina's population is 98%, 95.4% in Chile, 97% in Uruguay, in Mexico only 70% (included mestizos), C.Kent87 is obsessed with adding mestizos of Mexico as Criollos ( Latin Americans descendants of Spanish) which in Mexico are only 9% according to the CIA or 16% according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Yes add mestizos in Mexico, we do every Latin American country. Therefore, until we agree, only add the "Criollo" (the direct Spanish descendant of Latin American). --190.209.46.146 (talk) 00:08, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your information is incorrect. Argentina's white pop is around 86%. More than 8% are Mestizo and many in the "white" category have some Amerindian ancestry (as University of Buenos Aires research revealed 56% of "whites" have some admixture.) And Chile is nowhere near that for White people - Chile counts MESTIZOS AND WHITES together. Most are Mestizo, but call themselves white. So nice try.
But we're talking about Mexico. And we're talking about those who descend from Spain. That's criollos AND Mestizos. Even on a low estimate it would be more like 80%. And we don't have to add just criollos... that's the POINT. It is RELATED peoples. Those that have ethnic Spaniards as ancestors, mestizos included. Please go ahead and add up all numbers for all countries. C.Kent87 (talk) 03:28, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
in Article Only include ethnic Spanish, as in the other articles on ethnic groups that exist on wikipedia.
in Article Only include ethnic Spanish, as in the other articles on ethnic groups that exist on wikipedia.
In Mexico they live only 10 million ethnic Spanish in Argentina 25, in Brazil 15, and Chile 9.5 million. Kent Please finish your acts vandalicin this article that has always treated on AMOUNT of people with Spanish nationality and the persons ethnic Spanish

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.46.53.131 (talk • contribs)

Again, you are misinformed. A source that YOU uphold gives chile 8 million, not "9.5". And Mexico's is more like 18 million. C.Kent87 (talk) 01:04, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't an article on "Spanish ancestry", it is the article about the "Spanish people", i.e. the people of Spanish nationality. The "genetics section" is quite clearly a confused mess and I suggest we stub it for the time being. If you want to discuss the "ethnic Spanish" of Mexico or Argentinia, the least you can do is present excellent sources to back up your claims, under WP:REDFLAG. --dab (𒁳) 18:15, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting the related category leaves the history of THE Spanish people very blank - Isn't this about the group who sailed to other lands spreading their seed more than any other group in history? Or did they become obsolete when they left a Spanish port headed for Latin America? There are millions and millions with Spanish ancestry - and it is THEIR ancestors who were "Spanish people".
At the very least there needs to be a section on immigration like the "Populations with French ancestry" in French people - Even Mexico has been kept listed there! Yes, it is difficult to find perfect sources, but let's be srious here. Did Spaniards go to these different lands and mold them? or not? Did they come by the hundreds of thousands? Yes. It is not going beyond reality to see that these numbers that have been listed are in fact the closest we can get to correct. These Spanish people who immigrated didn't leave behind thier ancestry. They chose to move themselves - and their heritage, and this is their legacy. How does this not fit in with an article on "Spanish people"? C.Kent87 (talk) 13:13, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Clearly, this article (Spanish People) is wrongly using Spanish and Spaniards as synonyms. They are NOT.

While most Spaniards are Spanish, most Spanish are not Spaniards. Only Spanish from Spain are Spaniards. Spanish from Argentina are Argentinians and from Mexico are Mexicans, etc.

And Spanish from Spain are only part of the Spaniards demographic. Some Spaniards are not Spanish. Some are Catalans, for example. While they are both Latinos, some Spaniards are not Latinos or Spanish, specifically the Basques... but they are Spaniards.

Also, not all Latinos are Spanish or Spaniards. Some are Portuguese, Italians, Brazilians, Romanians, French and the less known Friulians... and many more even less known disappearing ethnicities.

Hispanic is an incorrect USA invented word to mean Spanish speaking Americans(North and South)as a more politically correct word, compared to Latino. Brazilians, in particular are neither Spanish nor Hispanic..but they are Latinos, which USA incorrectly does not recognize. In other words, USA congress does not include Brazilians in Latino category despite their Portuguese language.

Wikipedia MUST take note of these words and use them separately and correctly...they are not synonyms: Spanish, Spaniard, Latino, and Hispanic.

This article can be disparaging to politically and historically conscious non-Spanish Spaniards. It is disconcerting to me, a Spanish speaking Filipino-American with Spaniard heritage, my Father's mother(Maria Caridad Esperanza Lopez Nadal)being a lady from Mallorca. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.172.173.176 (talk) 15:37, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It has to do with English grammatical issues. Spaniard/s are NOUNS! so I was chuckling reading your post hugh "Spaniards demographic", "Spaniard heritage" hehehe sounds like bad grammar to my ear. Now replace that with Spanish and it sounds much better. They refer to Pau Gasol as a Spanish basketball player not a Spaniard basketball player...like I said Grammar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.213.251.144 (talk) 01:08, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pau Gassol is an Spanish basketball player which his mother language is Catalan, not Spanish..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.39.162.42 (talk) 19:34, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested move

The USA census has started to use the term Spanish in the census along side Hispanic and Latino and do to the fact that people use the term shorthand for anybody who speaks Spanish in the English speaking world(though of course that is silly but it is the reality) i suggest this be moved to Spaniards rather than Spanish people to avoid confusion being this is English language Wikipedia--Wikiscribe (talk) 16:01, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A For other uses... template over the heading should be enough to avoid any confusion. --Jotamar (talk) 16:40, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish people is ambiguous in the English speaking world i.e it can mean a Dominican a Honduran a Puerto Rican and in turn these people may commonly refer to themselves as Spanish that is one of the reasons the USA census added Spanish along side Latino Hispanic, to avoid any ambiguity i suggest moving it to Spaniards being that term is not ambiguous and is more common name for nationality for people coming from Spain which is what this article is about people from Spain Europeans not Latin Americans--Wikiscribe (talk) 17:02, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is not true, it is the USA as far as i know, maybe Australians, Canadians or enlish speaking caribbeans can tell us what it means when they generally hear the words spanish people..In Uk and Ireland the term spanish only reafers to people from spain...almost 100% of the time the term Spanish is used when speaking about spain..and above all, changing it to spaniards, which i personally hardly ever used maybe 10% of the time, would be giving in to the correct usage of the word. it seems strange that this happens and yet they dont call a Jamaican or Australian English people do they?...nope didnt think so. I do understand the suggestion though. It is true that the term in the US census is badly used even in the 1980 census spanish is the term used to group all spanish speaking heritage, which is why the example given in the census if your Hispanic is Spaniard. The three terms Latino Hispanic and Spanish seem to be used, will it end at just 3?..since the term Hispanic and Spanish are literally the same root in origin, if you read the Spain article and click on the Latin languae version what comes up. Hispania, and the language they speak?..Lingua Hispanica.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.171.20 (talk) 01:28, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That does not matter the article title should best reflect what the article is about in a world view and Spaniards best reflect that,also do not try to insinuate that if for example i went to England and referred to the people of Spain as Spaniards they would look at me like i got 4 heads because you know darn well Europeans know what a Spaniard is it is a very common term through out the world for the people of Spain and it has more than 7 and a half million hits on google so it is not obscure--Wikiscribe (talk) 19:18, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ISP user as i said Spaniards[2] has no ambiguity to it, Spanish people can notice how this dictionary uses the word Spanish[3] similar to the way Hispanic gets used by other dictionaries[4] it can mean anybody you comes from a Spanish speaking origin and my proof is the USA census and ambiguity with dictionary meanings,i am not saying Spanish People is wrong because it is not but the term better suited for this article is Spaniard because i have yet to find any ambiguity with this definition and it only gets used to mean people who are native to Spain where Spanish people can have a more generic meaning in other places , wrong or right, as silly as it is that is the way it is ,switching it to Spaniard there will be no ambiguity the only people that get called that are people from Spain nobody else,so in the best interest of keeping a world wide view i suggest it get moved to Spaniards and if nobody comes in soon with a logical encyclopedic reason why not it will be moved--Wikiscribe (talk) 04:26, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I completly understand what your saying, but in Europe the most common term is just spanish, with people using the term spaniards much less often. The UK has the second highest english speaking population after the US and we never hear about the term spanish being used in any other way, honestly, and just because the USA used this definition doesnt make it right. Also, has there actually been any misunderstanding of the usage of Spanish people since this article started?...has anyone actually suggested that it means someting else. It may be hard to beleive since im guessing the usage in the US is quite common?? even if they are not of spanish ancestry. It's pure stupidity on behalf of the the Americans. Infact it is hard for some of us to understand since we dont encouter this problem here. Since this is an international used site, we really do need to know what the Australians think and canadians since they are the highest number of native english speakers after the US and UK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.183.232.4 (talk) 18:13, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That does not matter the article title should best reflect what the article is about in a world view and Spaniards best reflect that,also do not try to insinuate that if for example i went to England and referred to the people of Spain as Spaniards they would look at me like i got 4 heads because you know darn well Europeans know what a Spaniard is it is a very common term through out the world for the people of Spain and it has more than 7 and a half million hits on Google so it is not obscure--Wikiscribe (talk) 19:18, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I read once that one fifth of Americans think Spain is in South America! At least this mean four fifths know where the country is and i seriously doubt that most of these people would be confused by using the term "Spanish" for a European people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.110.188.223 (talk) 00:04, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Physical appearance

This section is absurd. Trying to generalize the physical appearance of more than 40 million people is a nonsense. All the actual scientific information is included in the genetics section, so I'll delete this entry.--Infinauta (talk) 10:46, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. That was added by an IP user today.  Davtra  (talk) 11:16, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Agree with first observation. Total nonsense. You might as well say 'Irish people are well known for their characteristic red hair', or 'Germans are blue-eyed blonds in general'. Agree with removal. RashersTierney (talk) 11:38, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The reason I like to put the characteristics (different hair and eye colors and their frequencies) is these are also given in the article Portuguese people. Help me with this, because the frequencies of the hair and eye colors of Portuguese people may be different in Spanish people, please?! Of course, majority of Spaniards have dark brown or black hair and brown and hazel eyes. How about for blond, red, auburn, and chestnut hair colors and blue and green eyes? FILWISE (talk) 07:20, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Some people obsessions and personal issues.

since the beginning of this article some users have demonstrated to be obsessed with genetic influences from the Middle East and North Africa. Even if genetic research has shown that these influences are minor and small, some people continue enlarging the space devoted to these genetice markers. It is all so funny. Both male and female gender transmitted markers, the most reliable for ancestry, show that Spaniards are precicely among the most characteristically Western European peoples. Some people here over and over again seem to dislike that fact. You, the people I mean who seem to be obssessed, may continue to add content to the same minority markers and end up, as the section alreay is, with more information devoted to margianl markers than to the majority markers, even if they have to stick to single studies never duplicated or confirmed by other studies. cherry picking is here the main issue. This agenda is all so obvious¡. Of course ter is abslotly noting wrong with Middle Eastern and North African influences. The question is why all this is happening over and over again in this article. Koon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.39.41.147 (talk) 10:19, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Wikipedia is a disappointing page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.145.16.10 (talk) 08:10, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regions with significant populations

I see in this category that the page shows that the country with more spaniards is the USA with 625,562

I must point out that the actual number of spaniards livin in USA is 72,730. The 625 thousands would be americans with spanish ancestry, which is shown later down.

So please fix this, because it is totally inaccurate.

The fact that in the States people consider themselves spaniards just because they have spanish ancestry does not make them more spanish than the estimated 80 million of people with spanish ancestry in Mexico, or the 30 million in Argentina.

The same for Canada. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bertuccio (talk • contribs) 15:07, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

About the 80m of Mexicans with Spanish ancestry. I don't know the figure. I was just using the figures that were already on the site.

My point was that if we are talking about the number of spaniards abroad, which is one of the categories, in the States there's only 72 thousands, not the figure that is been shown in the site, wich referes to americans from the states with spanish ancestry and not to spanish nationals.

If you are not happy with the figures about Mexicans with spanish ancestry, you're very welcome to improve the site concerning that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bertuccio (talk • contribs) 07:09, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Genetic history of the Iberian peninsula

This discussion is also taking place at Talk:Portuguese people.

Considering the permanent reversions of content in the Genetics section of both this article and the Portuguese people article (editions looking forward to differentiate between the genetic background of Iberian populations), and considering that the Genetics sections of both articles are almost identical, with only a few minor divergences, I think it is time to create a Genetic history of the Iberian peninsula common article, and redirect from here. Salut, --IANVS (talk | cont) 15:53, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I had been thinking about proposing the same thing. --Jotamar (talk) 12:13, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That section is a complete and utter mess. To show that about 7-10% of Spaniards present North-African (Moorish) genetic markers (which is not unusual for a European country) the section is a lot larguer than what corresponds to the other 90%. It is also nonsensically divided, "Middle Eastern" genes in Spain are actually very rare, most of that section is about North African frequencies. Also the CIA quote about "mixture of Mediterranean and Nordic types" is amazingly innacurate for today's standards. And, is really so important to gain insight into Spanish people to devote most of this article to genetics? It's like if there is a weird emphasis to "prove" some myths and century-old stereotypes about Spaniards, despite what most studies say. Carlos--83.33.133.239 (talk) 15:10, 5 August 2010 (UTC
I also agree. It's a way too long section for something so specialized. It should be relocated in another article, deleted, or shortened to a few lines. --Infinauta (talk) 09:53, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I also agree. I mean, one has to be blind not to see it. John. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.55.202.122 (talk • contribs)
Finally it seems most people agree to relocate. I shall proceed.--Infinauta (talk) 19:46, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Done.--Infinauta (talk) 15:12, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I tend to desagree. All "people articles" tend to have a genetics sections, and so should the Portuguese and Spanish ones also have. Of course that article could be created, and the stuff in these 2 articles somewhat sumarized. But those sumaries should remain.

Having said this, it is also true that these 2 sections on Portuguese and Spanish genetics tend to be a battleground between those trying to make them "nordic" and those trying to make them "black moors" or someting. The Ogre (talk) 12:23, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I tend to disagree with your "desagree". It is false that all "people articles" tend to have a genetics sections. You can read English, irish, germanic, french, etc pages... neither of those "people articles" have a genetics section.

Since when is R1b, the most frequent male hap in Spain "Nordic", and N, the most frequent female hap in Spain "Nordic". Spain seems to have much more of these than the "Nordics". What happens is that some people continue to fall for cheap Nordicist, Neo-Nazi propaganda. John. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.125.185.140 (talk) 01:46, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Orge lets refrain from using terms such as "Nordic" let's not have that because the trolls come out to play and turn this into a 19th century moot discussion that is irrelevant,by the way RB1 is most common in western Europeans particularly among Spaniards Portuguese French British Isles peoples not Scandinavians who are the only people that should properly be called Nordic because they are commonly refereed to as the Nordic countries of Europe,the problem here is genetics is not an exact science apparently different studies insinuate different things and it gets into people trying to use DNA haplogroups to be suggestive,i do agree not all peoples articles do,another reason i don't like them is because they tend to be confusing ,not that i am saying one should not be here but it should be limited( these sort of genetic sections seem to get out of control) to what is commonly is demonstrated that Spaniards are descended mainly from Iberians with smaller genetic contributions from others that have past through such as Moors Visigoths and various other people that have past through the region.--Wikiscribe (talk) 04:20, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vote

I see sufficient support for this. Is anyone here bold enough to start the new article? Should we vote before? Salut, --IANVS (talk) 20:01, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Let's vote. I say YES, if, of course, the present articles on Spaniards and Portuguese maintain a samll section about genetics. The Ogre (talk) 12:49, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't start any article as it already exists here: Genetic history of the Iberian Peninsula.--Infinauta (talk) 14:34, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]


I totally agree: Portuguese People are NOT the same as Spanish People and therefore an "Iberian Genetic" section makes no sense. I find it pathetic that the Spaniards try to manipulate by every means possible here on Wikipedia and everywhere they can the fact that they are the nation with by far the highest Arab, Berber and Jewish blood in Europe. It's so amusing! There is little genetic, ethnic or cultural difference between Portuguese and Galician-Asturian. Portugal got rid of their Moors some 300 years earlier than Spain, Spanish has over 4,000 Arabic words, arabic cuisine (paella being just one of endless others), arabic music and dance (Flamenco)... come on Spain BORDERS with Morocco and haves "enclaves" in Morocco to this day so who are you idiots trying to fool? It's pathetic and sad that Spaniards even try to refute Hispanic these days because they have this historical inferiority complex inbread in them: try and paint their nextdoor neighbour Portugal as "more Moorish". Get a life you arseholes :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.145.229.148 (talk) 14:01, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Presumed Spanish Ancestry

Hi there i just wondering if we can make just one table with presumed spanish ancestry people with the most important amounts of people with spanish ancestry people because if we put here every single one person with spanish ancestry we will must every single country of latin america but all over the countries that had been part of the spanish empire or i f we consider every single spanish person in the world we should put every single country —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.229.184.27 (talk) 01:49, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What about Uruguay?

Here practically half of the population descends from spanish people ( the other half being mostly of italian descent), mainly galicians, but from many other regions of Spain too. Many people have both spanish and italian ancestry.--Knight1993 (talk) 00:09, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish Languages

"The official language of Spain is Spanish (español or castellano)" This must be corrected. The official languages of Spain are: Euskera, Galizian, Catalan their respective regions and Castillian which is the only one that official in all Spain. Officially in Spain there is no Spanish languages, where are referred as Spanish languages in plural as there are different. In the Americas Castillian language is named Spanish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.39.162.42 (talk) 19:29, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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