Ethnic and Racial Origins
The culture, customs, and language of Panama is predominantly Caribbean Spanish. Panama has a very diverse population which is largely of mixed Spanish, black, and Native American descent/ancestry. According to the CIA World Factbook, Panama has a population of more than 3,400,000; 70% is mestizo (mixed white, Native American, and/or black) and mulattoes (mixed white, and black ancestry), 10% is primarily black and mulattoes, 15% white and 6% Native Americans. Some East Asians like the Chinese are less than one percent.
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of Panama
Famous quotes containing the words ethnic, racial and/or origins:
“Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.”
—Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)
“Most young black females learn to be suspicious and critical of feminist thinking long before they have any clear understanding of its theory and politics.... Without rigorously engaging feminist thought, they insist that racial separatism works best. This attitude is dangerous. It not only erases the reality of common female experience as a basis for academic study; it also constructs a framework in which differences cannot be examined comparatively.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)