• Yliaster@lemmy.world
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    Ah so the people there are still ethnically brazillian/argentinian right? i.e. the people are indigenous themselves, just not the rulers? or are the majority of people of european descent too?

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      Brazil

      Majority of people are either pardo (mixed white/black/indigenous) or white indigenous population is less than 1%). First mixed race president was in 1909.

      Argentina

      80ish% European descent 16% indigenous

      Also it’s worth pointing out that both countries speak European languages and are majority Catholic.

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        Yeah hadn’t realized the spanish/portuguese thing, assumed indigenous folk spoke it but I realize it’s usually some different native thing.