Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Do you know the differences between us and the canadians?

Indigenous populations of the Americas1
as estimated percentage of total country's population
Country Indigenous Part-indigenous Combined total
Argentina 1% 13% 14%
Bolivia 55% 30% 85%
Brazil2 0.4% [?] [?]
Canada3 1.9%4 2.7% 4.6%
Chile 3% 60 63
Cuba5 0% NA NA
Costa Rica5 [?] [?] [?]
Colombia 2% 68% 70%
Dominican Republic 1% 40-60% 41-61%.
Guatemala 44% 52% 96%
Ecuador 25% 55% 80%
El Salvador 5% 94% 99%
French Guyana,
Guyana and Suriname
5 – 20% [?] [?]
Honduras 7% 90% 97%
Mexico 30% 60% 90%
Nicaragua 5% 69% 74%
Panama 6% 70% 76%
Paraguay 5% 93.3% 98.3%
Peru 45% 37% 82%
Venezuela 2% 69% 71%
USA6 0.9% 0.6% 1.5%
Uruguay 0% 8% 8%

1 Source : The World Factbook 1999, Central Intelligence Agency unless otherwise indicated.
2 2000 Brazil Census
3 Canada 2001 Census
4 1.9% is for single origins only, Aboriginal identity population is 3.3%
5 indigenous peoples mixed into the general population; NA = "not available".
6 2000 U.S. Census

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas

They're simply more humane than us. We wiped out 99 percent of the natives. The canadians, always more levelheaded and kind, wiped out only 98 percent.

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