[QUOTE=NinoBravo;1818054]I'm surprised you would say that considering all of the years you spent in Cali. There are many people in Cali that have Indian blood in them. Some of the most beautiful women there have Indian blood and are referred to as "una India" or " La India". No one hid the fact that they had an Indian heritage.[/QUOTE]In his cryptic style he may be referring to paisas, and indeed most of them do not have native Indian blood. This is in spite of what he thinks. You can google the demographics of Medellin and learn that pretty much everything the paisas told Sparrow and that he rejects is indeed correct. It is a city of Spanish descendants and European immigrants. Here, I'll save the trouble.
According to figures submitted by the DANE census 2005. The ethnographic makeup of the city is:
Black, mulatto, Afro-Colombian or Afro-descendant: 6.5%.
Indigenous Amerindians: 0.1%.
No ethnic affiliation: 93.4%.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Medellin received many immigrants from Spain. Most Indigenous peoples died from the introduction of European diseases, and many of those who survived intermarried with early Spanish settlers, who were mostly men; later, Spanish women also began to immigrate. During the 19th and 20th centuries, immigrants arrived from Lebanon, Jordan, Germany, Italy and Portugal. Many people from Medellin are referred to as Paisas, people of mainly Spanish ancestry, a lot of them Basque. There is a small Afro-Colombian and Zambo-Colombian (people of Indigenous and African descent) population.
