Spanish Chileans
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| All over Chile | |
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| Chilean Spanish | |
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| Roman Catholicism, Evangelical, Protestantism | |
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| Chilean people, Spaniards, and other Latin American peoples |
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| Significant Spanish diaspora |
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Spanish Chileans (in Spanish: Hispanochileno) are Chileans, of Spanish origin, even though most of the original colonial settlers have mixed with the other Europeans that have settled in the country after Independence up to the 20th century, and have lost their Spanish cultural identity.[1][2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Spanish colonizers first came to Chile in the 16th century, but today's Spanish Chileans are descendent from recent immigrants from the 19th and 20th centuries and they came from from different parts of Spain. Thousands of Spanish refugees fleeing Spanish Civil War on 1939 also settled and have many descendants in the country. There are also Catalans and Galicians, most of these two came either through Argentina (which has a large Galician population) or came escaping the Spanish Civil War and Franco's Dictatorship.
They have regional cultural centres in Santiago and other large cities.
References
- ^ Diariovasco.
- ^ entrevista al Presidente de la Cámara vasca.
- ^ vascos Ainara Madariaga: Autora del estudio "Imaginarios vascos desde Chile La construcción de imaginarios vascos en Chile durante el siglo XX".
- ^ Basques au Chili.
- ^ Contacto Interlingüístico e intercultural en el mundo hispano.instituto valenciano de lenguas y culturas. Universitat de València Cita: " Un 20% de la población chilena tiene su origen en el País Vasco".
- ^ Template:Es La población chilena con ascendencia vasca bordea entre el 15% y el 20% del total, por lo que es uno de los países con mayor presencia de emigrantes venidos de Euskadi.
- ^ El 27% de los chilenos son descendientes de emigrantes vascos. DE LOS VASCOS, OÑATI Y LOS ELORZA Waldo Ayarza Elorza.
- ^ Template:Es Presencia vasca en Chile.