Cultural Diversity In Venezuela

Venezuela has a large majority of hispanics, as it is a spanish speaking country. African Americans, Amerindians, and arabs are considered to be minorities. Furthermore, out of the overall populace, African Americans only account for 8-10%, and amerindians and arabs are only 2%. There are many mestizo races, also known as mixed races that are 21% that include Europeans, but are mostly Spanish, Italian, German, and Portuguese people. The rest of the remaining population are hispanics. There is some diversity that will lead to a larger majority of cultural traits and customs. With the combination of different ethnicities and races, there is often acculturation, transculturation, and cultures that are syncretic. Transculturation can be the cultures

Also there will be many places of hispanic restaurants. There will be a large variety of different food since there is a diversity of different ethnic groups. A majority of services, like restaurants, entertainment, religious places, and stores will be geared towards the latino ethnicity, which can be cultural landscapes. It is common that people of the same ethnicity will be living together and in groups in the same region. The pattern of this is that Venezuelans with the mestizo or mixed races or have european background, usually are located in the north. Mulatto mestizos and african ancestries are found more along the coastline to the Caribbean Sea. Furthermore, the hispanic population are often found in the highlands, on the contrary the group of the minority population of indians, are mostly found in the lowlands, near the Zulia

Some examples of the indigenous groups of people could be the ethnic groups mentioned earlier, the Yanomamo, Pemon, Motilone Bari, Yekuana, Yaruro, and the people of Baniwa, Kali’na, and Warao. The people that migrated into the country and were immigrants and sometimes have some tension between the indigenous ethnic groups. Overall though, with time the conflict has minimized dramatically and it was more of a past conflict and not as common in today’s age. Often the conflict would be that the indigenous people would think that they were better than the immigrants. That was preexisting of today’s age. There still is some conflict due to racial and ethnic beliefs but they are not near as serious as they were in the past, it has improved greatly and there is much more equality. At the end of the day, the country has a great amount of cohesiveness and they see themselves as one and united. As shown in the picture above, there are many different ethnicities but they are all smiling because they share a common passion and love for their