White Cubans

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White Cubans (Spanish: Cubanos blancos) are Cubans of wholly or predominantly European (predominantly Iberian) and West Asian ancestry, who self-identify as 'white'. At the institutional level, the Cuban National Office of Statistics and Information—the body responsible for compiling official demographic data—employs the designation "white" in its classifications. The 2012 Cuban census identified White Cubans as the largest demographic group in Cuba, comprising 64.12% of the total population. In Cuba, the term blanco (English "white") encompasses persons of broadly European ancestry, in practice predominantly those of Southern European descent, whose phenotypic characteristics, include light skin complexion. Most white Cubans descend predominantly from Spanish settlers and immigrants, principally from the regions of Andalusia, the Canary Islands, Asturias, Galicia, and Castile. Aside from those of Spanish descent, white Cuban ancestry also encompasses the descendants of immigrants from...

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