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White Argentine Argentino blanco

Notable White Argentines: Eva Perón · Néstor Kirchner · Yésica Toscanini David Nalbandian · Clarisa Fernández · Coti Sorokin Gabriel Batistuta · Carlos Menem · Manu Ginóbili
Total population
White Argentine 39,092,869 (95% of total Argentina's population)
Regions with significant populations
Found throughout Argentina
Languages
Predominantly Spanish
Religions
Predominantly Roman Catholic with Jewish · Protestant · Orthodox · Atheist and Agnostic minorities
Related ethnic groups
White Brazilian · White Cuban · White Latin American · White Americans · White Hispanic · White Mexican Spaniards · Italians · Germans · French · Portuguese · Poles · Croats · Europeans · Ashkenazi Jews

White Argentines make up 95% of Argentina's population, or around 39 million people. [1] Whites are found in all areas of the country. White Argentines mainly are descendants of immigrants who came from Europe in the late 19th century. Most of these immigrants came from Spain and Italy.

1 History
2 Ancestry
3 See also
4 References

[edit] History

Unlike many nations in the Americas, Argentine ethnography is characterized for having the major percentage of European descendents. Estimations of which vary from 85%^[1] to 97%^[2] of total population. The last national census indicated a similar figure (95%), that is much close to the upper limit for different estimations.

The most common ethnic groups are Italian and Spaniard. There are also significant German, Polish, French, and Slavic populations.

After the regimented Spanish colonists, waves of European settlers came to Argentina from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Major contributors included Italy (initially from Piedmont, Veneto and Lombardy, later from Campania, Calabria, and Sicily),^[3], and Spain (most are Galicians and Basques, but there are Asturians, Cantabrians, Catalans, and Andalusian). Smaller but significant numbers of immigrants include Germans, which most are Volga Germans of Russia, but many came from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria; French which mainly came from the Occitania region of France; Slavic groups which most are Croats and Poles, but there are Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians, Serbs, and Montenegrins; British mainly from England and Wales; Irish who left from the Potato famine or British rule; Scandinavians from Sweden, Denmark,Finland, and Norway; Arabs mainly from Lebanon and Syria; and Armenians who came as refugees from the Ottoman Empire. Smaller waves of settlers from Australia, South Africa, and the United States are recorded in Argentine immigration records^{[citation needed]}.

The majority of Argentina's Jewish community derives from immigrants of north and eastern European origin (Ashkenazi Jews), and about 15–20% from Sephardic groups from Syria. Argentina is home to the fifth largest Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. (See also History of the Jews in Argentina) .