Jump to content

European Costa Ricans: Difference between revisions

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
m Reverted edits by Bleckter23 (talk) (HG) (3.1.20)
m Reverted to revision 758520887 by Iryna Harpy: Rv: Restoring non-genetics version in prep for merge. Please see discussion with Dereck Camacho on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Iryna_Harpy#Hi_Iryna my talk page]. (TW)
Line 5: Line 5:
|image=
|image=
|caption=
|caption=
|population= {{circa}} 3,597,000<ref name="nacion">{{cite web|url=http://www.nacion.com/vivir/ciencia/Herencia-china-moldea-genes-costarricenses_0_1444655578.html |title=Ticos tenemos más de africanos y chinos de lo que se pensaba |trans-title=Costa Rica has more Africans and Chinese than was thought |work=Nacion.com |date=12 October 2014 |accessdate=18 January 2016}}</ref><ref> http://www.crhoy.com/costa-rica-es-multirracial-ultimo-censo-lo-pone-en-evidencia/ </ref>
|population= {{circa}} 2,597,000<ref name="nacion">{{cite web|url=http://www.nacion.com/vivir/ciencia/Herencia-china-moldea-genes-costarricenses_0_1444655578.html |title=Ticos tenemos más de africanos y chinos de lo que se pensaba |trans-title=Costa Rica has more Africans and Chinese than was thought |work=Nacion.com |date=12 October 2014 |accessdate=18 January 2016}}</ref><ref> http://www.crhoy.com/costa-rica-es-multirracial-ultimo-censo-lo-pone-en-evidencia/ </ref>
|popplace=
|popplace=
|langs= [[Costa Rican Spanish]], [[English language|English]]
|langs= [[Costa Rican Spanish]], [[English language|English]]
Line 12: Line 12:
}}
}}


'''Costa Rican people of European descent''' or '''White Costa Ricans''' are people from [[Costa Rica]] whose ancestry lies within the continent of [[Europe]], most notably [[Spain]]. According to DNA studies, around 67%<ref name="Plos">{{cite journal|title=Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos|journal=PLOS Genetics|date=March 21, 2008|url=http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1000037#pgen.1000037.s003}}</ref> of the population have some level of European ancestry.<ref name="nacion"/>
'''Costa Rican people of European descent''' or '''White Costa Ricans''' are people from [[Costa Rica]] whose ancestry lies within the continent of [[Europe]], most notably [[Spain]]. According to DNA studies, around 47% of the population have some level of European ancestry.<ref name="nacion"/> Costa Ricans whites are minority because the immigration were from Nicaragua, China and Africa.


<ref>http://heavy.com/entertainment/2014/07/costa-rican-fans-girls-hot-sexy-butts-ass-world-cup-2014/</ref>
Percentages of the Costa Rican population by race are known as the national census does have the question of ethnicity included in its form. As for 2012 65.80% of Costa Ricans identify themselves as white/castizo and 13.65% as mestizo, giving around 80% of Caucasian population. This, however, is based in self-identification and not in scientific studies. According to [[PLoS]] ''Genetics Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos'' study of 2012, Costa Ricans have 67% of European ancestry, 29% aboriginal and 3% African.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos Tabla|journal=PLoS Genetics|url=http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000037?imageURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000037.g001#pgen.1000037.s003}}</ref> Accordig to [[CIA Factbook]], Costa Rica has white or mestizo population of the 83.6%.<ref name="CIA"/>

[[Cristopher Columbus]] and crew were the first Europeans ever to set foot on what is now Costa Rica in Columbus last trip when he arrived to [[Uvita Island]] (modern day [[Limón province]]) in 1502.<ref name="Planet">{{cite journal|title=Costa Rica|journal=Lonely Planet|url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/costa-rica/history|accessdate=30 August 2016}}</ref> Costa Rica was part of the [[Spanish Empire]] and colonized by Spaniards mostly [[Castilians]], [[Basque people|Basque]] and [[Sefardi Jews]]. After the [[Independence of Central America|independence]] large migrations of wealthy [[American people|Americans]], [[Germans]], [[French people|French]] and [[British people|British]] businessmen<ref name="Planet"/> came to the country encouraged by the government and followed by their families and employees (many of them technicians and professionals) creating colonies and mixing with the population, especially the [[High Class|high]] and [[middle classes]].<ref name="SICREM">{{cite journal|title=OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION (Costa Rica)|journal=SICREM|url=http://www.migracionoea.org/index.php/en/sicremi-en/reports/34-sicremi/publicacion-2012/paises-en/515-sintesis-historica-de-la-migracion-internacional-costa-rica.html|accessdate=30 August 2016}}</ref> Later, more humble migrations of [[Italians]], Spanish (mostly [[Catalans]]) and [[Arab peoples|Arab]] (mostly [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] and [[Syrians]]) migrants visit the country escaping economical crisis in their home countries, setting in large, more closed colonies.<ref name="Planet"/> [[Polish diaspora|Polish migrants]], mostly [[Ashkenazi Jews]] escaping [[anti-Semitism]] and [[Nazism|nazi persecution in Europe]] also migrated to the country in large numbers.<ref name="Planet"/> In 1901 president [[Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra]] closes the country to all non-white immigration forbidding the entrance of all [[Black African]], [[Chinese people|Chinese]], [[Arab]], [[Turkish people|Turkish]] or [[Gypsy]] migration in the country. After the beginning of the [[Spanish Civil War]] large migration of [[Spanish Republican|Republican refugees]] also settle in the country, mostly [[Castilians]], [[Galicians]] and [[Asturians]],<ref name="SICREM"/> as later [[Chilean people|Chilean]], [[Argentinian]], [[Mexican people|Mexican]] and [[Colombian People|Colombian]]<ref name="Planet"/> migrants would leave their countries traveling to Costa Rica escaping from war or dictatorships as Costa Rica is the longest running democracy in [[Latin America]] and unlike most of its neighbors had no dictatorship during the 20th century.<ref name="Planet"/> <ref name="SICREM"/>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 04:04, 7 January 2017

European Costa Rican
Total population
c. 2,597,000[1][2]
Languages
Costa Rican Spanish, English
Religion
Roman Catholic 76.3%, Evangelical 13.7%, other 4.8%, none 3.2%, Buddhism 2%[3]
Related ethnic groups
White Latin American, White Caribbean

Costa Rican people of European descent or White Costa Ricans are people from Costa Rica whose ancestry lies within the continent of Europe, most notably Spain. According to DNA studies, around 47% of the population have some level of European ancestry.[1] Costa Ricans whites are minority because the immigration were from Nicaragua, China and Africa.

[4]

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ^ a b "Ticos tenemos más de africanos y chinos de lo que se pensaba" [Costa Rica has more Africans and Chinese than was thought]. Nacion.com. 12 October 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  2. ^ http://www.crhoy.com/costa-rica-es-multirracial-ultimo-censo-lo-pone-en-evidencia/
  3. ^ "Costa Rica". The World Factbook. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  4. ^ http://heavy.com/entertainment/2014/07/costa-rican-fans-girls-hot-sexy-butts-ass-world-cup-2014/
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=European_Costa_Ricans&oldid=758720059"