Please check out the archives of discussion for any contentious points. -Uyvsdi (talk) 23:54, 13 July 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
I feel that mestico should not be included in this article mestizo due to the fact that it is a Portuguese word that does not have the same meaning as mestizo which is a Spanish word. The Portuguese equivalent of the Spanish word Mestizo is non other than the Portuguese word Mameluco The word Mameluco is a term of Portuguese origin describing the first generation offspring of a European and an Amerindian. Mestico is not the same as Mameluco.
Apparently according to the map in this page Chile is neither a mestizo nor indigenous majorital country. I'm not sure the queality these stadistics may have, as I dont posses an exact approximate, but if you ask a non-fasist or travelled Chilean he will tell you that Chile is a mestizo country. Unlike Argentina, Chile had a massive mestizaje process, as they ad both a substancial amount of native americans and married them, instead of killing them like in Argentina. Moreover, I'm also aware that Argentina recieved a much larger european inmigration both by number and percentage; in contrast to Chile where the popultion descendant of european migrants accounts for some 20-30%. I'm not sure how good the wikipedia article for chilean inmigration is, but it accoutns the population with european descent as a 17%. Then again,why is Chile counted as a non-mestizo country? By comparison, chile cant be put on the same level of Argentina when It comes to mestizos, Chile is much more similar to the rest of Latin America. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.136.100.173 (talk) 01:52, 2 January 2013 (UTC) True Chile is a country with a large mestizo population but there is also a part of the total population with a notorious european ancestry specially basque, german, italian and french that had not mixed at all with the rest of the population. This is true specially in the center and the south. This part of the population dominates important aspects of the political and social life of the country. The mestizo population also has less indian blood than in other countries of Latin America. Because the chileans of european descent are mostly in a good economic and social position and the mestizos mostly in a modest economic and social position and since most "non-fascists"belong to the poor or mestizo class and since this poor class has recently improved its status but still resents this elite they like to claim that their ethnic group is the overwhemly predominant group. I am chilean and lived 14 years there and iv my personal experience there I saw a lot of mestizos (although not so mestizos) but also a lot of white people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.131.175.122 (talk) 05:46, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
I want to include the image in the article because it represents how variated mestizos can be nowadays, i really don't see nothing wrong with it and a real life image about the topic in question is always a must in wikipedia. If anybody that disagrees with me is free to coment here and tell me why. Angelicality (talk) 03:36, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi I'm theryx and although the user Angelicality continue advocating a particular point of view about the image, I respectfully say that I am in total disagreement with the user Angelicality. The people from Colombia appears in the image but the image doesn't say the ethnicity of these people for this reason is more appropriate to use images of people who know certainly that they are mestizos. --Theryx7 (talk) 02:24, 3 June 2013 (UTC)