Mexicans
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Mexicans (Spaingie: Mexicanos) refers tae aw bodies frae Mexico, a multiethnic kintra in North Americae, an/or that identifee wi the Mexican cultural an/or naitional identity.
Tot population | |
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Warld ±142,000,000 | |
Regions wi signeeficant populations | |
Mexico 111,211,789 | |
Unitit States | 31,689,879 a[1] |
Canadae | ~61,505 b[2] |
Spain | ~21,107 c[3] |
Germany | ~9,225[4] |
Italy | ~6,798[5] |
Brazil | ~6,625[6] |
Unitit Kinrick | ~5,297[7] |
Paraguay | ~4,187[8] |
Costa Rica | ~4,000[9] |
Netherlands | ~3,000[10] |
Cuba | ~2,757[11] |
Israel | ~2,100[12] |
Belize | ~2,000[13] |
Argentinae | ~1,890[14] |
Chile | ~1,876[15] |
Leids | |
Spaingie, Inglis an 62 indigenous linguistic groups o Amerindian leids. | |
Releegion | |
Maistly Christianity (Majority Roman Catholicism, minority Protestantism), an aw Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Paganism, ither releegions, an nae releegion | |
a Mexican American b Mexican Canadian |
Mexico becam a naition in 1821 whan Mexico achievit unthirldom frae the Spaingie Empire; this begoud the process o forgin a Mexican naitional identity that fusit the cultural traits o indigenous pre-Columbian oreegin wi thae o European, pairticularly Iberie, ancestry. This led tae whit haes been termit "a peculiar form o multi-ethnic naitionalism".[16]
The maist spoken leid bi Mexicans is Mexican Spaingie, but mony speak leids frae 62 unalike indigenous linguistic groups an ither leids brocht tae Mexico bi recent immigration or learnt bi Mexican immigrants bidin in ither naitions. Ower 78% o the Mexican fowk bide in Mexico but thare is a sizable diaspora wi naurly 22% bidin in the Unitit States.