Talk:Asian Latin Americans

References

So this article has been tagged for references and I've had some pages bookmarked for quite a while so I thought I'd help. I played with Wikipedia a bit but I don't feel comfortable editing plus I don't know how to source/don't want to mess up the article. =/ Forgive me. I hope some of this info helps.

Note: Mexico, along with other countries in Latin America, doesn't do a racial census so official numbers might be hard to come by.

Japanese

The numbers of actual populations vary by source.

These sites [1] [2] include the number of Japanese immigrants to Latin America (and other parts of the world). It also has estimates of Nikkei populations but the numbers seem low in contrast to censuses from such countries as Brazil and the U.S. There are about 1.3-1.5 million in Brazil and 800,000 in the US. They began arriving in Latin America as early as 1892 (Mexico) and 1899 (Peru).

Information about the number of Okinawans immigrants to Latin America. Also gives info about Brazil's 1.5 million Japanese community. [3]

Japanese speakers in these countries are: Mexico (35,000) [4] Argentina (32,000) [5]

Chinese

There about 100,000 Chinese in Cuba (1% percent of the population). [6]

From Ethnologue, going by the number of native speakers in these countries: Venezuela (400,000) [7], Peru (100,000) [8], Mexico (35,000) [9]

The number of Chinese is most likely higher since this includes only those that speak Chinese.

There have been Chinese in (Sinaloa) Mexico since the 19th century (1895). [10]

Chinese in Peru

isn't it more like 1,300,000 as opposed to 100,000. The Overseas Chinese article says 1.3 mil. And many articles on Peru say something like Chinese make up 5% of Peru's population.

Filipinos

This website puts the estimate of Filipinos descendants (as opposed to immigrants) in Mexico at 200,000. [11]

Koreans

Ethnologue puts the number of Korean speakers in Brazil at 37,000. [12] The number is most likely higher.

There are about 20,000 Koreans and their descendants in Mexico. Korean immigration to Mexico dates back to 1905. [13] [14] [15]

There are about 35,000 Koreans in (Buenos Aires) Argentina after a mid-80s peak of 50,000. [16]

At least 30,000 Koreans have immigrated to Los Angeles from South America thus being Latinos of Korean descent. [17] It's an interesting article for those that are interested. ;)

Other

This is all I have for now but there are other Asian groups (Vietnamese, Taiwanese, etc.) that I didn't mention and that's because I don't have any info on them but if I can find any I'll bring it up. There are also a lot more Asians in countries such as Chile, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, etc. but, again, I don't have any info on them.

Should Asian Indians be included in this article since most live in Anglophone countries (Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, etc.) which aren't a part of Latin America?

Moretti80 08:47, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Good data, Moretti. And only Asian Indians in Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil should be included in this article. SamEV 04:05, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

"related groups" info removed from infobox

For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all {{Infobox Ethnic group}} infoboxes. Comments may be left on the Ethnic groups talk page. Ling.Nut 16:55, 19 May 2007 (UTC)