Latinos and the miscegenation In the history of modern nations, miscegenation was crossed by numerous factors, such as the climate, the cultural particularities of each community, or other aspects that caused, in different regions within the same country, that miscegenation occurred at different rates. and degrees of depth. The Latin American example is remarkable, since it exemplifies an ethnic mix spread throughout much of the territory, thanks to miscegenation, the Latino race that today lives in all of Latin America was born. Latinos are an ethnic group that is seen throughout Latin America, and we are the majority in our countries where usually the second most viewed ethnic group is that of white men, looking Europeans, Canadians and gringos, being that this goes from 2% to more than 50 % in some countries such as Argentina and Paraguay, it should be noted that the Latino is also called mestizo.