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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "European Mexicans are Mexican citizens of European descent. Despite that Mexico does not have a racial census, estimations from different international organizations regarding the number of this ethnic group within the country's population range from 9% according to The World Factbook, to as high as 10-20% (approximately one-tenth to one-fifth) according to Encyclopædia Britannica. Another group in Mexico, the "mestizos", also include people with varying amounts of European ancestry, with some having a European admixture higher than 90%. However, it must be considered that the criteria to define mestizo might be different from study to study, and that in Mexico a good number of white people have been historically classified as mestizos, because the Mexican government defines ethnicity on cultural standards as opposed to racial ones.Europeans began arriving to Mexico with the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, with the descendants of the conquistadors, along with new arrivals from Spain formed an elite but never a majority of the population. Intermixing would produce a mestizo group which would become the majority by the time of Independence, but power remained firmly in the hands of the elite, called “criollo.”While most of European migration into Mexico was Spanish during the colonial period, in the 19th and 20th centuries European and European derived populations from North and South America did immigrate to the country. However, at its height, the total immigrant population in Mexico never exceeded one percent of the total. Many of these immigrants came with skills and money to invest and/or ties to allow them to become prominent in business and other aspects of Mexican society."@en }

• Mexicans_of_European_descent abstract "European Mexicans are Mexican citizens of European descent. Despite that Mexico does not have a racial census, estimations from different international organizations regarding the number of this ethnic group within the country's population range from 9% according to The World Factbook, to as high as 10-20% (approximately one-tenth to one-fifth) according to Encyclopædia Britannica. Another group in Mexico, the "mestizos", also include people with varying amounts of European ancestry, with some having a European admixture higher than 90%. However, it must be considered that the criteria to define mestizo might be different from study to study, and that in Mexico a good number of white people have been historically classified as mestizos, because the Mexican government defines ethnicity on cultural standards as opposed to racial ones.Europeans began arriving to Mexico with the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, with the descendants of the conquistadors, along with new arrivals from Spain formed an elite but never a majority of the population. Intermixing would produce a mestizo group which would become the majority by the time of Independence, but power remained firmly in the hands of the elite, called “criollo.”While most of European migration into Mexico was Spanish during the colonial period, in the 19th and 20th centuries European and European derived populations from North and South America did immigrate to the country. However, at its height, the total immigrant population in Mexico never exceeded one percent of the total. Many of these immigrants came with skills and money to invest and/or ties to allow them to become prominent in business and other aspects of Mexican society.".