Ethnic Variety
The Venezuelan American population represented the Venezuela's ethnic variety. Some 70 percent of the middle-class Venezuelan immigrants are a mixture of European, Amerindian, and African ancestry. The 21 percent are white, the 8 percent are black and only the 1 percent is Amerindian. Most Venezuelan Americans descends of Spanish (mainly), Italians, Portuguese, Germans, and the French.
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