I never understood this. From what I was taught in history class, masses of native north & south americans died because of European diseases. And for each latin american country, of course there are large african and native descents, but from what I read each country has a massive part of Spanish heritage.
Nowadays, how many humans live between El Paso and Ushuaia? More than half a billion? Yet Spain is only a country of 40m people. How is this possible?
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Most of the people in South America aren’t Spaniards by blood. They just ended up speaking Spanish as a result of being rules as Spanish colonies. Most are native, or mixed with African, and perhaps some Spaniard. A much higher percentage of natives were killed off by war and disease in North America and in the Caribbean that South America.
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